How to Use emotionalism in a Sentence

emotionalism

noun
  • The display of emotionalism going on around you could drive you a little crazy.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2020
  • Others find Segel’s emotionalism hard to take, as well as the hang-out vibe (don’t these people work?), among other things.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a kind of opening for women there, with that emotionalism.
    Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Harry, the wild young prince, has already proved the new British emotionalism by opening up publicly.
    Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • The show’s inescapable power comes from the emotionalism of great music, and in the current production every bit of its depth charge sounds.
    Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
  • Thus the current high anxiety, and the need from America for calm, cool logic, not emotionalism.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Thus last week did a tragic hour, damned by logic and twisted by emotionalism, come to the subcontinent of India.
    Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The touchstone from an era or two earlier was Jacqueline du Pré, whose high-impact emotionalism affixed a certain kind of singing sound in the ear of many a listener.
    Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Infused with Waititi’s brand of humor, the show is balanced with deep emotionalism.
    Scott Huver, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • So that cures whatever alleged lack of emotionalism the M4 suffers.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Even a recent bout of emotionalism on the 2020 presidential campaign trail raised the issue of crying on the political stage.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The emotionalism became more (or less) three-dimensional according to who was singing.
    Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Her Liusaidh is driven by an elemental emotionalism, propelled between present and past in the film's shifting timelines like a woman on fire.
    Jen Yamato, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The prickly strumming of his guitar heroes and the steely-eyed emotionalism of his norteño heritage planted the seeds for Maverick to grow his own rapturous desert soundscapes, which sprawl outward and spiral into the cosmos.
    Suzy Exposito Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
  • Sometimes his fluttery trills, when combined with lyrics extolling his own sensitivity and emotionalism, are just too much.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
  • No plan ever works perfectly, but setting such standards is the only way that policy makers can resist emotionalism on one side and wishful thinking on the other.
    Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • My advice to those relatively few Twitter users who produce all its high-quality content: Put aside emotionalism.
    WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The play explores uncomfortable issues — colorism, poverty — and seethes with teenage emotionalism.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • From this standpoint, conspiracy thinking isn’t a sign of ignorance or emotionalism; to the contrary, perceiving the hidden plots of our true rulers is a necessary and vital step in seeing through the myth of liberal democracy.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Our public political culture has given in too much to emotionalism.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • As Jean-Jacques’s emotionalism proliferates in the culture, as people are socialized to see themselves as self-validating vectors of desire, the groundwork of the republic trembles.
    John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Given their tuneful nature and naked emotionalism, Mr. Tyler’s albums have something to offer those who don’t often listen to instrumental music.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Uchis’ 360-degree view of love and versatile voice make Red Moon in Venus a wholly satisfying examination of emotionalism in its many forms — romantic, carnal, self-preserving.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • No amount of emphatic emotionalism, heroic grandstanding, or Instagrammable, earthbound beauty can distract from this fact.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • 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.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There’s this myth in wide circulation: rational, emotionless Vulcans in white coats, plumbing the secrets of the universe, their Scientific Methods unsullied by bias or emotionalism.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2014
  • But in reality, Thunberg is cutting through—rather than displaying—emotionalism.
    Camilla Nelson, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But this changed dramatically with the rise of romanticism, which glorified nature and imparted intense emotionalism to its subject matter.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • His dances exist entirely on their own, without plot or characters, without emotionalism or psychology.
    Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The larger-than-life theatricality and emotionalism of Puccini and Verdi don’t exactly lend themselves to clarifying complex, precise ideas.
    New York Times, 24 June 2018

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