emotionalism

Example Sentences

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Reagan’s statements were similar to JFK’s in that they were rhetorically disciplined—no breast beating, no emotionalism, just the facts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2023

This “hard realism,” as Mr. Pearlstein called it, broke decisively with the torrid emotionalism of the Abstract Expressionists, embracing an art that was, he asserted in a statement to ARTnews in 1967, “sharp, clear, unambiguous.”

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

The long-delayed sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” which opens May 27, will follow suit in its desire to give devotees of the 1986 original exactly what they crave: naked emotionalism and fighter jets.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote