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intellectualising

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  • verb Present participle of intellectualise.

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Examples

  • 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’.

    N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • I find this a more positive way of looking at things than the idea of either “handwringing” and “over-intellectualising”.

    N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • A load of pseudo quasi self servers intellectualising and looking for a book deal.

    Police Rudeness Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Michael McNay The Guardian, 1 January 1971 saw it as part of an "intellectualising of comic cuts culture".

    AAARGH! Bumper Souvenir Catalogue Steve 2009

  • Or rather, several serpents, but the worst is the folly of intellectualising the practice.

    Religious Experience Can't Be Discussed William Harryman 2009

  • 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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