emotionalism

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In the new revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, she gets to display not only her patented emotionalism but also a strategic restraint that keeps every option open.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

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

It is based not just on extreme authority and emotionalism, but a cultivation and worship of the Irrational.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2023

This “hard realism,” as Mr. Pearlstein called it, broke decisively with the torrid emotionalism of the Abstract Expressionists, embracing an art that was, he asserted in a statement to ARTnews in 1967, “sharp, clear, unambiguous.”

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 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