emoting

Example Sentences

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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

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

All that painful emoting is how people become resilient through suffering; if she bottles it up, she doesn’t learn that she can live through her pain.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2022

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