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
In 2019, social media personality Backpack Kid alleged the game ripped off his popular “Floss” dance move for an emote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
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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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
Hanagami is not the first dancer and creator to accuse Epic’s “Fortnite” of lifting work for emotes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
For all of its motion, the whole work is restrained, reserved, well-behaved while the music emotes, soft-focused even after the scrim lifts.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Epic will be selling Dragon Ball-themed backblings, pickaxes, gliders, and emotes as well.
From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 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
A bit strident in her top notes and underpowered lower down, van den Heever emoted plausibly and sang with admirable control, but made little impact.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
And after he was right, he emoted just how we would feel, too.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
I was particularly proud of the fact that in two scenes — one in particular — I really emoted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
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
Which was something I’d never been asked to do before, to trust that the audience will still hopefully be invested, even if there’s not a lot of emoting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
What the state is wrestling with, and the public is emoting about, is the coming end of the internal combustion engine.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
It seemed as if the shaft sighed every time steam rose from it, as if emoting a whisper of anticipation.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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