emotionalism
Example Sentences
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Then, after a short silence, the music resumed, but now with the addition of Mr. Muhly on prepared piano, lending ineffable poignancy to strains of unsentimental emotionalism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Woo’s films, and this one is no exception, are also characterized by an over-the-top emotionalism that amplifies all feelings to mythological status.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023
It is based not just on extreme authority and emotionalism, but a cultivation and worship of the Irrational.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2023
Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play is a murky-looking, claustrophobic exercise in emotionalism at its most trite and ostentatiously maudlin.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
