emotionalism
noun
emo·tion·al·ism
i-ˈmō-sh(ə-)nə-ˌli-zəm 
1
: a tendency to regard things emotionally
2
: undue indulgence in or display of emotion
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Arpino’s interest in popular culture, athletic technique, and unapologetic emotionalism has found a new audience in the post-Balanchine world.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
Simmons took that religious devotion to exercise, stripped away its grim asceticism and elitism, and imbued it with pure emotionalism and inclusivity.
—Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, 16 July 2024
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 May 2025
That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2025
Simmons took that religious devotion to exercise, stripped away its grim asceticism and elitism, and imbued it with pure emotionalism and inclusivity.
—Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, 16 July 2024
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“Emotionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emotionalism. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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