intellectualized

For three years, he writes that he "intellectualized" his problem, convinced that his intelligence and training would allow him to maintain control over his drug use and prevent negative consequences.

Deni Carise: Addiction and the Perils of Intellectual Thinking 2010

What we have here is a kind of intellectualized Ponzi scheme: The suckers are baited by a quick payoff in the form of the cheap, transient satisfaction that goes with despising those of another class, race or political persuasion.

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It is difficult to render this word in the sense in which Rathenau uses it; 'intellectualized' does not say enough, and 'spiritualized' says a little too much.] [Footnote 32: Assuming that the highest output is reached in the particular instance which of course will not be the case with every worker whether in the mechanical or intellectual sphere.

The New Society Walther Rathenau 1894

Seeing itself as an intellectualized and enlightened version of an ancient religion, the Reform movement of Judaism began in Germany and sought to modernize the faith and bring it into harmony with a secular lifestyle.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Everything here was filtered, given hip, intellectualized context.

Glen Helfand: Media of the Month Glen Helfand 2011

Everything here was filtered, given hip, intellectualized context.

Glen Helfand: Media of the Month Glen Helfand 2011

Finally, however, what probably annoys me the most about the above quoted passage, as well as other similarly know-nothing comments about the New Criticism, is the degree to which New Critical formalism continues to be regarded by some (whether, in this case, by the two critics at issue or by Christine Thomas -- I have to rely on her characterization since I haven't read the books) as an over-intellectualized, reader-unfriendly method of interpretation.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Everything here was filtered, given hip, intellectualized context.

Glen Helfand: Media of the Month Glen Helfand 2011

Far better to use what one friend calls the "intellectualized It Bag" — the Herm è s Shadow 40 price upon request.

Luggage: An Open and Shut Case Tina Gaudoin 2011

But too often in the psychoanalytic literature, the pain of the mental anguish and its consequences seemed abstract and intellectualized.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011