emotionalism

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Recent Examples of emotionalism The group’s music attracts a loyal following with its soulful, spirited emotionalism. Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024 From …Baby One More Time to Everytime, there’s an emotionalism at the core of her music that still resonates with people decades later. Sam Sanders, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2023 At least two styles of (mostly ineffective) play are named for the emotionalism that characterizes them: Revenge-Seeking and Carebear. WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023 Psychologists such as Meaghan Rice see toxic femininity as the inverse of toxic masculinity – a constellation of characteristics like meekness, emotionalism, passivity and self-sacrifice. Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for emotionalism
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Noun
  • Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • If the past 50 years of scores were all about boundless emotionality, these newer scores are pulsing and discordant — closer to Steve Reich or Karlheinz Stockhausen than European Romantic composers like Beethoven or first-generation Americans like Leonard Bernstein.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Truth be told, the final stretches of sentimentality might’ve been a bit much, if Gaga hadn’t earned the right to get lovey-dovey with us by being such a scary goofball earlier on.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Michelle’s unfazed, stunned response to the homily at Mass during the opening scene introduces Ozon’s own lack of sentimentality and affirms Ozon’s connection to cinema’s greatest traditions.
    Armond White, National Review, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • So what starts out as this high-school melodrama done for laughs grows into something darker and more profound as the story progresses.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Directed by Vincente Minnelli, this romantic melodrama was filmed on the beaches of Big Sur.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Emotionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalism. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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