emote
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With the character’s green skin shrouded under shades of navy color grading, it’s almost impossible to see Erivo emote in scenes where it counts the most.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
Compared with the shaggy, likable Kong, who, with the ability to emote, is a character audiences have always empathized with, Godzilla is “a little bit more complicated to pull off,” according to the filmmaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Even before the war, she said, Ukrainians tended to be stoic and reluctant to emote.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
"Rihanna never needed to over-sing anything; she always sounded too cool to emote," said Stereogum's Tom Breihan. ahead of her Super Bowl debut.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
They brood; they emote; but the idea that they are murderous is a cultural libel.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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Players of the game have called on Epic Games to remove emotes and cosmetics associated with D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
She emotes, she has a developed backstory, and she delivers some of the film’s most compelling dialogue with confident gusto.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
The gold currency is unique to iHeartLand, but it’s not clear if the emotes are exclusive or available elsewhere in Fortnite.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2022
An editor helps cut together clips of her Twitch streams and format content for different platforms, and a graphic designer optimizes her YouTube thumbnails, creates custom-emoji-style reactions called emotes and animations.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
When she described how she emotes, she kept likening herself to a prehistoric man, standing at the edge of an ocean, slowly gaining sentience: “ ‘Who the hell am I?’” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
When she has emoted, it has usually been on Instagram or Twitter.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
And after he was right, he emoted just how we would feel, too.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
I only sought what I wanted — to stare at Song Seung-heon as he emoted with his manly eyebrows — looking where I knew I could find it, a scavenger rooting around for nourishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2020
As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Later, she had become a soubrette and a star in merry little plays in which she sang and danced and "emoted," all in one evening.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
The incomparable star is a vision in studded white or powder-blue jumpsuits—cavorting, emoting, karate-chopping and spreading the bat wings of his sewn-on cape in a move that never fails to thrill the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Songs like “No Good Deed” and “March of the Witch Hunters” are chopped up and rearranged to allow for more dialogue and less emoting, distending the film into a bloated heap.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
This one’s for when you feel like crumbling into your insecure teenage self and emoting breathily about how it feels like every time you try to fly, you fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
It’s an odd choice, at least until you put that against the fact that the other blocking option available in this restricted space is turning and simply emoting directly to the audience instead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry’s direction.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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