emotional appeal
Example Sentences
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The project’s genesis as an excavation of found material hints at concepts having to do with forgotten technology and lost futures, yet the emotional appeal of the music is palpable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
Perhaps it's the power of music, from its sheer emotional appeal to its lasting psychological impact, that also functions as a common thread between the kids watching and the parents dancing.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
She made an emotional appeal for his help; the regional prosecutor’s office is now involved.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
The parents of a 14-year-old girl thought to have been murdered 20 years ago have made an emotional appeal for someone to come forward with new information and "end our nightmare".
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
A magnetic power, an emotional appeal to elementary passion, to a sense of justice in the mass rather than to the letter of the law fitted him for political life.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
