How to Use emotionality in a Sentence

emotionality

noun
  • Ken may be living a life of plastic, but for Gosling the emotionality is all real.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The emotionality around all of this in and around water, like the water has delivered me.
    — Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The emotionality of Browne’s creations struck a chord with Roth.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 May 2022
  • Even Fogelman’s knack for weepy emotionality turns out to have its limits.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The challenge to this legacy paradigm may just be the variation emotionality brings to people of all ages and stages of life.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • But some of her most important lessons came from her mother, who was steeped in the volatile emotionality of Mexican rancheras.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • Because of the movie’s intimacy and emotionality, Lang wanted to write lyrics that might be whispered to a lover.
    — Edward Wasserman, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2021
  • On the dark side, the strength in Cancer’s emotionality can result in mood swings and a tendency to retreat when feeling overwhelmed.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • But none of this backlash has quite captured that the reasons behind this emotionality might be more complex than simply worshiping a cartoon mouse.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
  • Off the court, Beverley’s volatility and emotionality were a strain, the juice provided on the court not always worth the squeeze off of it.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • That is, not only does emotionality sell goods, but emotions themselves have also become commodities.
    — Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Doing something like this, the emotionality really drew me to the character.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Headland's script brings more than just wit to the table; there's a raw, honest emotionality here, fleshed out characters, and thoughtful dynamics.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • But now that the concept is being to the test, Brooks warns against making the common mistake of equating empathy with emotionality.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The emotionality that was involved in it and the roller coaster rides that everybody was going through, my writers, everybody was having so many issues.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Over the course of more than 70 screen credits, the actor became known as a reliably electric performer, adding texture and emotionality to all of his roles.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But the semi-romance that should elevate the plot to a higher level of emotionality has, instead, the opposite effect.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The plot, for all its love of science and reason, is a miasma of magic, melodrama, corny emotionality, and gangster-movie politics.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • In the first season, that emotionality felt calibrated.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
  • This kind of emotionality is a bit more difficult to capture in longer gameplay and may represent one of the few times where the lack of agency in the series improves on gameplay constraints.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
  • They’re trained in the assessment of impulsivity, the assessment of high states of emotionality.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 20 May 2022
  • As a writer, however, Ryan wants to keep a balance between her characters’ passion and emotionality.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
  • To be calm and collected in the face of disrespect, to resist emotionality, and as a Black woman, to especially resist anger.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Sensations abound, but a human audience might struggle to access the same emotionality the Ochi are supposedly able to mine from them.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • On the other hand, while emotional sensitivity can be a good thing, too much emotionality can have negative consequences.
    — Andrea Kuszewski, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2011
  • These 14 songs never offer the slightest relief from the intense emotionality of the breakdown of her relationship.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Clayborn's writing has a latent emotionality that, paired with her lyrical pen, results in deeply romantic storytelling in the most mundane of circumstances.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The lyrics articulated heartbreak and healing with a self-awareness and an emotionality that honored the confusion, pain, and melodrama of the road between the two.
    — Briana Younger, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The actors, all hysterical, can get a bit broad in their line readings, playing into and playing up the absurdity and hormonal emotionality of being a teen.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Using a variety of measurements for emotionality, the researchers could find no significant difference between any of the groups.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021

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