emotionalism

The Los Angeles Times ran a particularly snarky article around the time of the 1943 concert that dismissed the singer as “an opium of emotionalism.”

His two originals, “Cleopatra” and especially “Lucy & Dixie,” have the all-caps emotionalism of the local post-rock veterans Explosions in the Sky.

A love story and a ghost story, it marries sly conceptual daring and fearless emotionalism with masterly assurance.

Woo’s films, and this one is no exception, are also characterized by an over-the-top emotionalism that amplifies all feelings to mythological status.

It is based not just on extreme authority and emotionalism, but a cultivation and worship of the Irrational.