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
Mary, who by then was a nurse, said it had a powerful emotional appeal when dealing with people who were dying.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
There’s a wonderfully simple emotional appeal embedded in the opening of “I Don’t Understand You,” a comedy from co-writer-directors Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 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
Indeed, the safety of modern life, and the absence of visible violence, have taken the emotional appeal out of many grim lessons of Spenser's and of Dante's.
From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander
