How to Use emotionality in a Sentence

emotionality

noun
  • The emotionality of Browne’s creations struck a chord with Roth.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 May 2022
  • Ken may be living a life of plastic, but for Gosling the emotionality is all real.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Off the court, Beverley’s volatility and emotionality were a strain, the juice provided on the court not always worth the squeeze off of it.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The challenge to this legacy paradigm may just be the variation emotionality brings to people of all ages and stages of life.
    Rod Berger, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • But some of her most important lessons came from her mother, who was steeped in the volatile emotionality of Mexican rancheras.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • Because of the movie’s intimacy and emotionality, Lang wanted to write lyrics that might be whispered to a lover.
    Edward Wasserman, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But now that the concept is being to the test, Brooks warns against making the common mistake of equating empathy with emotionality.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 8 Nov. 2020
  • It's certainly changed her point of view and emotionality.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This kind of emotionality is a bit more difficult to capture in longer gameplay and may represent one of the few times where the lack of agency in the series improves on gameplay constraints.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
  • For Lloyd Webber, the benefit of drama was to give definite shape to the abstract emotionality of music: A melody might sound sad, but only a lament could be tragic.
    Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • To be calm and collected in the face of disrespect, to resist emotionality, and as a Black woman, to especially resist anger.
    Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The emotionality that was involved in it and the roller coaster rides that everybody was going through, my writers, everybody was having so many issues.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The lyrics articulated heartbreak and healing with a self-awareness and an emotionality that honored the confusion, pain, and melodrama of the road between the two.
    Briana Younger, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2021
  • But none of this backlash has quite captured that the reasons behind this emotionality might be more complex than simply worshiping a cartoon mouse.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
  • We’re told only that a UI like Chanda needs some level of emotionality to function properly at his coding job, but not really why.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
  • They’re trained in the assessment of impulsivity, the assessment of high states of emotionality.
    Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 20 May 2022
  • The actors, all hysterical, can get a bit broad in their line readings, playing into and playing up the absurdity and hormonal emotionality of being a teen.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2022
  • What has yet to be expansively embraced by several in the cast of 17 — which includes the recorded voice of Phylicia Rashad as a furious Giant — is the searing emotionality in this story, of wishes granted but hopes dashed.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Singers like Jepsen and Robyn amp up that emotionality, rendering it evermore explicitly the point, rather than a commonplace effect.
    Rachelvoronacote, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Clayborn's writing has a latent emotionality that, paired with her lyrical pen, results in deeply romantic storytelling in the most mundane of circumstances.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • At their best, Woo’s American pictures showcased his ability to blend mind-melting action scenes with a kind of romanticism and emotionality genre films often looked down on; in that sense, Face/Off (1997) remains unmatched.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
  • Upon its premiere at a virtual Sundance, many reviewers took note of its broad emotionality and mainstream appeal and pegged it as the most obvious potential breakout.
    Vulture, 29 Mar. 2022
  • As a plot unfolds around the choice confronting Attius — opening up his battered heart and aiding a child in dire straits — Anthony deftly explores the powerful emotionality behind the character’s mask of resigned misery.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Using a variety of measurements for emotionality, the researchers could find no significant difference between any of the groups.
    Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Finally, the Moon enters Sagittarius, taking us from a deep, sensitive emotionality to a more adventurous and bold inner voice.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • On the other hand, while emotional sensitivity can be a good thing, too much emotionality can have negative consequences.
    Andrea Kuszewski, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2011
  • Sullivan's music carries the churchy emotionality and down-to-earth detail of vintage Southern soul into the everyday situations and electronic soundscapes of hip-hop.
    Jon Pareles New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Its center is a Parisian single mother finding her footing, played with an inviting emotionality by Charlotte Gainsbourg, while its satellite figure is a homeless teenager who enters the family’s orbit.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • As in other creative professions, emotionality and expression are crucial parts of a musician's performance, and these cues appear to be more easily perceptible by sight than by sound.
    Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2013
  • In a series punctuated by great moments for Jeremy Strong, this is a highlight, speaking to another crucial element of Kendall’s great allure: strong himself, with his deep verisimilitude and wide-ranging, complex emotionality.
    Jack King, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2021

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