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Recent Examples of emotionalism
The group’s music attracts a loyal following with its soulful, spirited emotionalism.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
From …Baby One More Time to Everytime, there’s an emotionalism at the core of her music that still resonates with people decades later.
—Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
At least two styles of (mostly ineffective) play are named for the emotionalism that characterizes them: Revenge-Seeking and Carebear.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
Psychologists such as Meaghan Rice see toxic femininity as the inverse of toxic masculinity – a constellation of characteristics like meekness, emotionalism, passivity and self-sacrifice.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
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Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
From …Baby One More Time to Everytime, there’s an emotionalism at the core of her music that still resonates with people decades later.
—Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023
At least two styles of (mostly ineffective) play are named for the emotionalism that characterizes them: Revenge-Seeking and Carebear.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
Psychologists such as Meaghan Rice see toxic femininity as the inverse of toxic masculinity – a constellation of characteristics like meekness, emotionalism, passivity and self-sacrifice.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionalism
Noun
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Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Creating character is not among Murphy and Robertson’s strengths, and their pivot to awkward sentimentality throws the whole negotiation into disarray.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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For a lot of Black dads, specifically those of a certain generation, life dealt them an unfairly tough hand, leaving them in a constant state of survival where feelings and sentimentality could be the difference between life and death.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Photo: Everett Collection Most stories about identical twins fall into the genres of horror or comedy, but A Stolen Life, one of the earliest twin movies, opts for sumptuous melodrama.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But this is also Coogler’s riff on the Western, with circling buzzards and black hats; his stylish crime-flick pastiche, with sleek suits and loaded guns; and a Southern Gothic melodrama about the sins of the father and the return of prodigal sons.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Emotionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalism. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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