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- adjective Excessively
intellectual .
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Examples
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Far from being hideously overintellectual, the play's triumph is to make these topics into full-blooded drama by inventing characters to whom they are genuinely and vitally important.
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I watch my own poems more carefully for word flow and, most critically, for sound, and for obscurity, ** working to eliminate anything overacademic, anything overintellectual.
Literary influences, part III mariness 2005
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#1: Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol; a socialist redistributing wealth to the undeserving or a tool of Wall Street; a terrorist-coddling lawyer or a closet Cheneyite; a lightweight celebrity or a Machiavellian mastermind; the reincarnation of J.F.K.,
BuzzFlash.net: published RicKelis 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tumultuous 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tumultuous 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tumultuous 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tumultuous 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
Alternate Brain Gordon 2010
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Depending on where you stand - or the given day - he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley.
NYT > Home Page By FRANK RICH 2010
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What can be offputting and overintellectual about jazz can also be the source of the continued appeal of the music to listeners and to commercial interests.
thenewdominion.com 2009
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