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Recent Examples of emotionalism
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.
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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
There was a not-insignificant strain of complaint about Guardians 3 trading in its fun irreverence for goopy emotionalism and melodrama.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024
The group’s music attracts a loyal following with its soulful, spirited emotionalism.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
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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
There was a not-insignificant strain of complaint about Guardians 3 trading in its fun irreverence for goopy emotionalism and melodrama.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024
The group’s music attracts a loyal following with its soulful, spirited emotionalism.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionalism
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Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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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
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The video production is lush, the sentimentality laid on thick — this is a movie that’s far more interested in playing familiar notes about how cinema is magical and storytelling is vital for the already converted than taking a critical look at its subjects.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Richard’s account would probably differ and have more to do with Lorenz’s alcoholism, depression, erratic work habits, and aversion to sentimentality.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn’t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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Then things just unravel into a half-hour of thoroughly phony mawkishness.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Emotionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalism. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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