emotional appeal
Example Sentences
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US television star journalist Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal Saturday for anyone with information about her mother's disappearance to come forward, saying "we are begging for help" six months after the kidnapping took place.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Members argued for copying a playbook of simple messaging, emotional appeal and a willingness to provoke - albeit with different content.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
But the idea of finishing up there—a storyline the NBA, currently assembling a European league of its own, might love—does that have emotional appeal?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
The same laws of emotional appeal are working in the one as in the other; a similar artistic stamp is printed on all these stories.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
