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Recent Examples of emotionality
That is, not only does emotionality sell goods, but emotions themselves have also become commodities.
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Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
Sensations abound, but a human audience might struggle to access the same emotionality the Ochi are supposedly able to mine from them.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
The brilliant guitarist played with incredible imagination, combining a heavy guitar style with intense emotionality.
—Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Choose words carefully to promote clarity and lessen emotionality.
—Mike McGrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
Sensations abound, but a human audience might struggle to access the same emotionality the Ochi are supposedly able to mine from them.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
The brilliant guitarist played with incredible imagination, combining a heavy guitar style with intense emotionality.
—Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Choose words carefully to promote clarity and lessen emotionality.
—Mike McGrew, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionality
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McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 2025
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson, never one for excess sentimentality, admitted the idea had been floating around for a while.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Is there a specific fragment of his soul where all that beautiful melodrama stems from?—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The film struggles to let scenes breathe, bludgeons us too frequently with music cues and skips out on crucial emotional beats to replace them with less effective melodrama.—
Brandon Yu,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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The emerging British singer brought a lot of heart and emotion to the performance.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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In a battle defined by grit and high emotions, the Miami Hurricanes fell to the Louisville Cardinals, 3-2, in Game 3 of the NCAA Louisville Super Regional.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2025
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Dependency and cathexis are also incredibly painful and difficult to extricate yourself from.—
Janey Starling,
refinery29.com,
10 Apr. 2020
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There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis.—
Janey Starling,
refinery29.com,
10 Apr. 2020
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“Emotionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionality. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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