Verb (used without object) : to intellectualize about world problems. From Dictionary.com.
No true conservative know-nothing would use the word "intellectualize"!. From Wordnik.com. [A Day At The Congressional Races] Reference
The worst way one can teach the Holocaust to kids this young is to, as you put it, "intellectualize" it. From Wordnik.com. [Six million what] Reference
Well, some of it is stuff you can intellectualize. From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
He could intellectualize its behavior and function. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
The mental processes are too fast to intellectualize. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
We tend to over intellectualize elk and deer hunting. From Wordnik.com. [When I go Elk hunting the choices are 30-06, 25-06, or 350 Rem. mag. Which one should I carry? Why?] Reference
We each may justify, intellectualize, and seem resolute. From Wordnik.com. [Slackers Uprising; Free Speech and Download] Reference
Then again like I said we tend to intellectualize things. From Wordnik.com. [“Gran Torino” movie review » Scene-Stealers] Reference
I don't like when people over-intellectualize what they do. From Wordnik.com. [Tent Dress, I mean, Dress Tent - A Dress A Day] Reference
The fact that I don't over-intellectualize stuff like he does. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams Last Night] Reference
He can intellectualize and speak effectively about his emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Intermittent Explosive Disorder – An illness or just bad behavior? — Meandering Passage] Reference
Starkey's number two, Brownley Harris, tended to intellectualize. From Wordnik.com. [Four Blind Mice]
"I don't have the time to intellectualize these things," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Redrawing The Color Lines] Reference
Are we so desperate to intellectualize that all nouns must be verbed?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » How to “Kill the Bill”] Reference
He can intellectualize about his needs and her needs until kingdom come. From Wordnik.com. [Mothers, Again « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
His ability to intellectualize the position probably has aided his rise. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - At 22, Sabres' Miller busts goaltending curve] Reference
But these are still generalizations -- you can intellectualize them away. From Wordnik.com. [Naomi Wolf: The Attack on MoveOn.org and Other Dangerous 'Fingerprints'] Reference
I cannot over emphasize, don't over intellectualize your African battery. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Myles do you decrease the powder charge for your solid bullets compared to equal weight softs in your medium to big bore r] Reference
But you who intellectualize this case and are dismissive with your sneers. From Wordnik.com. ["Defense invokes 'Crash,' blaming chance encounter for man's death."] Reference
"Only in Washington do liberals intellectualize the meaning of 'liberal.'". From Wordnik.com. [A Day At The Congressional Races] Reference
So, if you're in a relationship, you -- you intellectualize it to schedule. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005] Reference
His words were as prickly as a cactus, but he managed to intellectualize bullying. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a Cruel, Cruel World] Reference
Any attempt to intellectualize your way out of desire will ultimately end in denial. From Wordnik.com. [Isha Judd: The Spirituality of Desire] Reference
I could intellectualize about it all I wanted to, but I was falling for Kit Harrison. From Wordnik.com. [When the Wind Blows]
And if I can't feel my way through it, maybe I can intellectualize my way through it. From Wordnik.com. [Storytellersunplugged] Reference
Reflection is needed to intellectualize the emotion, to articulate what is the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Muttering, she added, "Leave it to Em Hansen to intellectualize a near-death experience.". From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
Bottom line: Scheve and Slaughter, like most economists, over-intellectualize the American people. From Wordnik.com. [Does Scheve and Slaughter's "New Deal" Pass the Sniff Test?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
At the beginning, on a big picture, which I'd decided this might be, I intellectualize the process. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
The church's influence is an iceberg that no candidate wants to intellectualize about from the stump. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gregory: Titanic Tuesday: Every Man for Himself] Reference
If anything, people who write and intellectualize things all the time actually kind of annoy me anymore. From Wordnik.com. [mesocyclone Diary Entry] Reference
KING: It's hard to intellectualize what is the flowering romance leading to marriage, an intellectual discussion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2005] Reference
It means that liberals everywhere, like in Chicago, San Francisco, and New York do NOT intellectualize the meaning liberal. From Wordnik.com. [A Day At The Congressional Races] Reference
OK, so John Kennedy's spokesman Lenny Alcivar said "Only in Washington do liberals intellectualize the meaning of 'liberal.'". From Wordnik.com. [A Day At The Congressional Races] Reference
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