emote
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But it also pre-dates many other traditions which may be why Lee and other stars seem freer to emote.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024
Compared with the shaggy, likable Kong, who, with the ability to emote, is a character audiences have always empathized with, Godzilla is “a little bit more complicated to pull off,” according to the filmmaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Even before the war, she said, Ukrainians tended to be stoic and reluctant to emote.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
"Rihanna never needed to over-sing anything; she always sounded too cool to emote," said Stereogum's Tom Breihan. ahead of her Super Bowl debut.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
They brood; they emote; but the idea that they are murderous is a cultural libel.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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She emotes, she has a developed backstory, and she delivers some of the film’s most compelling dialogue with confident gusto.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
Other Lady Gaga-inspired “Fortnite” accessories include a guitar, a microphone and a keytar, and dancing emotes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
When she described how she emotes, she kept likening herself to a prehistoric man, standing at the edge of an ocean, slowly gaining sentience: “ ‘Who the hell am I?’” she said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Twitch and other platforms have even gone so far as to remove certain emotes because people were using them to communicate certain words.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
One thing that wasn’t mentioned at all in the update was last week’s massive leak of content that revealed new characters, skins, weapons, and emotes that the developers are working on.
From The Verge ● Mar. 28, 2022
“As someone who usually lives with a skip in their step and a smile on their face — I was screamed out and cried out and emoted out by the end,” she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
I was particularly proud of the fact that in two scenes — one in particular — I really emoted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
As in her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” confessionals, she rarely emoted while talking.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Trump emoted so vigorously that sweat pooled on his upper lip and glistened across his face.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2019
Later, she had become a soubrette and a star in merry little plays in which she sang and danced and "emoted," all in one evening.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
Songs like “No Good Deed” and “March of the Witch Hunters” are chopped up and rearranged to allow for more dialogue and less emoting, distending the film into a bloated heap.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
Now, the aim is to keep layoffs even more efficient—with fewer chances for ugly public scenes or communal emoting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Theater can seem trivial to people, people standing onstage and emoting in some way, but it does so much for a person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
It’s an odd choice, at least until you put that against the fact that the other blocking option available in this restricted space is turning and simply emoting directly to the audience instead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Then she accompanied Miss Goodacre, who sang “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” in what I considered to be a completely indifferent voice, all the while emoting heavily in Harry’s direction.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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