You could be over-reacting, in your touchy-feely, left-wing, liberal, PC, paranoid over-intellectualisation of the words on the page in front of you. From Wordnik.com. [Duh, Tell Us About The Rabbits, George] Reference
And yet, even with Graphic Design's recent entry to the academy and its supposed intellectualisation as a field of study and research, we seem to be bombarded more and more by designers who believe the purpose of what they do is self-expression, and stake a claim for authorship of the work they produce over and above the true authors, the people who commissioned them. From Wordnik.com. [Design theory and its critics] Reference
The feeling of these satisfied him entirely, though of course be was incapable of their intellectualisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Places] Reference
In the case of monarchy one can also watch the intellectualisation of the whole process by the newspapers, the official biographers, the courtiers, and possibly the monarch himself. From Wordnik.com. [Human Nature in Politics Third Edition] Reference
The intellectualisation of a harmful act is a way of turning "bad" into "good" - the thought process may run thus: "my parents cut off part of my body and despite the fact that I didn't like it, my parents are good - so cutting off part of my body was good - therefore, to be a good parent myself, I must do the same to my son ...". From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
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