emotional appeal

Example Sentences

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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

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

One of missing Nicola Bulley's friends has made an emotional appeal for any new witnesses to come forward, a week after the mother-of-two went missing.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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