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- verb Present participle of
intellectualise .
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Examples
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I just wanted to say that discussion and thought about the role that EL teachers play in my view is perhaps reductively characterised as ‘over-intellectualising’.
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I find this a more positive way of looking at things than the idea of either “handwringing” and “over-intellectualising”.
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A load of pseudo quasi self servers intellectualising and looking for a book deal.
Police Rudeness Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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In another seven months, after much intellectualising, it will be in Wisden.
Zulqarnain Haider and Pakistan benefit from decision review system David Hopps at Edgbaston 2010
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Too much influence for some: the first review Coe's novel received, in the TLS, was written by a rather scathing Nigella Lawson: "inside this experimental fiction is a straightforward narrative struggling to get out, and underneath all the fey would-be intellectualising lie signs of genuine literary talent".
A life in writing: Jonathan Coe Paul Laity 2010
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I hope and pray that this is only some sort of misquote or vile but harmless piece of abstracted intellectualising.
Archive 2009-11-01 Alison 2009
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I hope and pray that this is only some sort of misquote or vile but harmless piece of abstracted intellectualising.
Dear Tom Flanagan, Boris 2009
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Michael McNay The Guardian, 1 January 1971 saw it as part of an "intellectualising of comic cuts culture".
AAARGH! Bumper Souvenir Catalogue Steve 2009
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Or rather, several serpents, but the worst is the folly of intellectualising the practice.
Religious Experience Can't Be Discussed William Harryman 2009
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Blair, of course, is the definitive answer to Clark's quasi-Marxist thesis: Clever people, of whom Blond is indubitably one, are prone to over-intellectualising politics – failing to grasp that it is a game where interests trump ideas.
Delusions about Red Toryism Burke's Corner 2009
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