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Definition of emotive
emotively
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Recent Examples of emotive from the Web
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Both are stories of young women, failed by mainstream society, seeking their place on the fringes, though while Arnold takes an intuitively emotive approach, Amirpour’s is far more schematic.)
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The single is paired with an emotive music video that shows little more than G-Dragon singing pensively amidst ambient lighting.
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Using Munch’s last significant self-portrait as a starting point to reassess his entire career, the show brings together his emotive and daring explorations of love, desire, despair and death.
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But the president’s address — a mix of dry statistics and emotive language — was designed to discredit the pact, point by point.
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Working with both sculpture and installation, Vital creates striking and emotive art that require ingenuity and technical skill to realize.
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Those words were the perfect complement to one of the most distinctive and emotive voices in music.
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Robert Moran wrote the original score — a varied, heavily percussive, emotive work tinged with ominous string harmonics, gong swells and rumbling timpani.
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But the campaign and the allegations surrounding it show what can happen when the often-murky world of lobbying intersects with emotive American issues like patriotism, protecting U.S. troops and the memory of Sept. 11.
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First Known Use of emotive
1830
EMOTIVE Defined for English Language Learners
emotive
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adjective
Definition of emotive for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to emotions
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: causing strong emotions for or against something
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