How to Use emotionalism in a Sentence

emotionalism

noun
  • There’s a kind of opening for women there, with that emotionalism.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Harry, the wild young prince, has already proved the new British emotionalism by opening up publicly.
    — Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • The show’s inescapable power comes from the emotionalism of great music, and in the current production every bit of its depth charge sounds.
    — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
  • Infused with Waititi’s brand of humor, the show is balanced with deep emotionalism.
    — Scott Huver, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • The emotionalism became more (or less) three-dimensional according to who was singing.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Thus the current high anxiety, and the need from America for calm, cool logic, not emotionalism.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Thus last week did a tragic hour, damned by logic and twisted by emotionalism, come to the subcontinent of India.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Our public political culture has given in too much to emotionalism.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Sometimes his fluttery trills, when combined with lyrics extolling his own sensitivity and emotionalism, are just too much.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The play explores uncomfortable issues — colorism, poverty — and seethes with teenage emotionalism.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Her Liusaidh is driven by an elemental emotionalism, propelled between present and past in the film's shifting timelines like a woman on fire.
    — Jen Yamato, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • No plan ever works perfectly, but setting such standards is the only way that policy makers can resist emotionalism on one side and wishful thinking on the other.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The touchstone from an era or two earlier was Jacqueline du Pré, whose high-impact emotionalism affixed a certain kind of singing sound in the ear of many a listener.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • His dances exist entirely on their own, without plot or characters, without emotionalism or psychology.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • 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.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • But in reality, Thunberg is cutting through—rather than displaying—emotionalism.
    — Camilla Nelson, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Even a recent bout of emotionalism on the 2020 presidential campaign trail raised the issue of crying on the political stage.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • No amount of emphatic emotionalism, heroic grandstanding, or Instagrammable, earthbound beauty can distract from this fact.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Oftentimes the president simply reacts with impulsive emotionalism to events.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2017
  • But this changed dramatically with the rise of romanticism, which glorified nature and imparted intense emotionalism to its subject matter.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The work’s flowering lyricism, radiant chords and unabashed emotionalism encapsulate optimism and hope.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The prickly strumming of his guitar heroes and the steely-eyed emotionalism of his norteño heritage planted the seeds for Maverick to grow his own rapturous desert soundscapes, which sprawl outward and spiral into the cosmos.
    — Suzy Exposito Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
  • From this standpoint, conspiracy thinking isn’t a sign of ignorance or emotionalism; to the contrary, perceiving the hidden plots of our true rulers is a necessary and vital step in seeing through the myth of liberal democracy.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Arpino’s interest in popular culture, athletic technique, and unapologetic emotionalism has found a new audience in the post-Balanchine world.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As Jean-Jacques’s emotionalism proliferates in the culture, as people are socialized to see themselves as self-validating vectors of desire, the groundwork of the republic trembles.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The larger-than-life theatricality and emotionalism of Puccini and Verdi don’t exactly lend themselves to clarifying complex, precise ideas.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • Lila’s musical style is eclectic, blending the mercurial emotionalism of Morissette’s music with Melissa Etheridge’s classic rock authority.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Uchis’ 360-degree view of love and versatile voice make Red Moon in Venus a wholly satisfying examination of emotionalism in its many forms — romantic, carnal, self-preserving.
    — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • While this gentler effort is unlikely to be similarly impactful, its witty humor and genuine emotionalism recall the best of Pixar, where its director worked as a story artist on such films as Wall-E and Incredibles 2.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • As Lanier acknowledges, the tendency of digital media to promote emotionalism, diminish thoughtfulness and undermine civil discourse was already in evidence when people first began conversing online in the 1970s, long before the ads showed up.
    — Nicholas Carr, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018

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