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That gets so hyperintellectual that it takes away from the enjoyment sometimes.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2018

Their movies can sometimes be disjointed, silly, hit-and-miss cartoons, but even those give you a glimpse of the brothers' Platonic ideal: hyperintellectual, dizzyingly creative, unpretentious truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Joyce's powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ira's not some hyperintellectual consultant who throws an incomprehensible leather-bound report on your desk," says Richard Miller, who oversaw Magaziner's work at GE.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is neither a hyperintellectual nor a blood-and-Kiplingite, nor a mere experimenter with unusual rhythms.

From Time Magazine Archive