rationalizing

Example Sentences

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“It’s all about visualizing, emotionalizing and imagining that you’re like an otter or a seal.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2019

But it is Steinbeck’s best novel… It is “great” in the way that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was great — because it is inspired propaganda, half tract, half human-interest story, emotionalizing a great theme.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2015

It was, though, not love that was emotionalizing her then.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar

He took his preconsidered skeleton of argument with all its careful alignment of crescendos and climaxes and clothed it with the passion of a rousing, emotionalizing speech.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus

Here is the way the dramatist, emotionalizing the description of the novel, turned it into dramatic illustration of Jean’s ignorance of the condition of the country.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce