emotionalism
Example Sentences
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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
Season 4 continues a progress away from the heightened, delicate emotionalism and wry humor of a Spielberg-style fable and toward the guilt, dread and body terror associated with Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg.
From New York Times ● May 26, 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
