emotional appeal

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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

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

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 Mother” makes a more direct emotional appeal than Brecht’s more complex dramatic works, such as “Mother Courage and Her Children,” written several years later for a more traditional theater audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

In some forms of literature, as in poetry, the emotional appeal is the main purpose of the writing; but even here no really profound or sublime emotion is possible without a solid basis of thought.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul