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  • n  (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

  • This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell.
  • Director Lyman Lloyd Bryson of California Association for Adult Education feared that "the tendency toward over-intellectualization of sex education for children has robbed the .
  • Indeed, the intellectualization of sex is Lang's cinematic specialty.
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  • Wake Up and Smell the Poetry Nov. 16
    Wake up and Smell the Poetry this Saturday and experience the art of  poetry, story and song as well as things like levity, intellectualization,  illumination, creative diversity and the great community privilege to learn and be inspired by one another.
    Nov. 15, 2013 - Hopkinton Crier

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