intellectualised

Underworld, I think, is an obvious example of the kind of intellectualised entertainment that passes for ‘literature’ nowadays.

War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009

Mott thinks that punk has been misrepresented since, both by rock historians who have over-intellectualised its meaning and context, and by curators who over-emphasise its artistic links to previous avant-gardes.

Loud Flash: the art of punk 2010

I'm not sure if you can say that, nearly forty years on, comics have become intellectualised or benefitted from the occasional critical assessment as "art".

AAARGH! Bumper Souvenir Catalogue Steve 2009

But she later rejected cubism, describing it as “over-intellectualised because of artificial construction, which is harmful to the work.”

Mela Muter. 2009

Could one man's obtuse and over-intellectualised mess be another man's cult tour-de-force?

GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky. 2006

Its surface content can be intellectualised as a story of bad hosts justly punished.

Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

As in other religions, the means by which pantheists pursue their objectives are generally not overtly or overly intellectualised.

Pantheism Levine, Michael 2007

A highly intellectualised mature mind may refer for its data very consistently to ideas of a higher being so remote and indefinable as God, so comprehensive as humanity, so far-reaching as the purpose in things.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

None of this--as a thought-out, intellectualised attitude--should be new or different or offensive ground for anyone who reads fiction in 2006.

Is There Someone at the End of This Rope? A Long Day's Struggle With M. John Harrison Abigail Nussbaum 2005

Her Sanctum was only too evidently an intellectualised bedroom, and a cheap wallpaper of silvery roses peeped coquettishly from among her draped furniture.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004