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- verb Present participle of
intellectualize .
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Examples
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If so, what exactly were you "intellectualizing" - comparing Jessica Simpson's vaheena to crack, or your cock to the Ku Klux Klan?
Portland Mercury Ann Romano 2010
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If so, what exactly were you "intellectualizing" - comparing Jessica Simpson's vaheena to crack, or your cock to the Ku Klux Klan?
Portland Mercury Ann Romano 2010
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Her attempt at "intellectualizing" the tragic failure shows a callous disregard for the truth and an inability to admit guilt or failure.
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Please note how strong the pull is to discount what's being said here as mere "intellectualizing".
Maya Politics 2006
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Because we don't like it -- We think of public intellectualizing as the same as public urination ...
WATCH: Bernard-Henri Levy With Stephen Colbert The Huffington Post 2011
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Because we don't like it -- We think of public intellectualizing as the same as public urination ...
WATCH: Bernard-Henri Levy With Stephen Colbert The Huffington Post 2011
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If a writer sits around intellectualizing his or her story, all is lost.
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And let's be honest, the entire concept of having a shrine or snobbish observance of rock & roll is antithetical to everything the damn art form stands for in the first place, and second, and most disturbing, is it confirms what purist caretaker, Lester Bangs predicted and oft-times celebrated as its demise propagated by the over-intellectualizing arrogance of the "rock critic elite."
James Campion: Why the F#@! Isn't Kiss in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? James Campion 2010
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He is no fan of Ignatieff's "cut-rate intellectualizing," and I'm with him there.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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I like that you posted this: all the intellectualizing ultimately gives way, often, where our kids are concerned, to raw emotion.
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