emotionalism

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Recent Examples of emotionalism From …Baby One More Time to Everytime, there’s an emotionalism at the core of her music that still resonates with people decades later. Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023 At least two styles of (mostly ineffective) play are named for the emotionalism that characterizes them: Revenge-Seeking and Carebear. WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023 Psychologists such as Meaghan Rice see toxic femininity as the inverse of toxic masculinity – a constellation of characteristics like meekness, emotionalism, passivity and self-sacrifice. Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023 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. Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for emotionalism
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Noun
  • Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Academy did not specifically name Ballal in a statement condemning violence. overnights Yesterday at 9:30 p.m. RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Mom and Pop Drag Race’s penchant for sentimentality ends up making for an entertaining and memorable episode.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That would better satisfy the yearning for sentimentality that director John Rando relies on.
    Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While the Hallmark series is a far cry from the melodrama of his soapier work, the actor compared When Calls the Heart’s passionate fanbase to that of General Hospital.
    John Russell, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.
    Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Emotionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalism. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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