emotionalistic

adjective

as in emotional

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  1. emotional
  2. theatrical
  3. sensational
  4. dramatic
  5. melodramatic
  6. operatic
Adjective
  • More importantly, part two closes an emotional circle that the first one had just begun to delineate.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Spivey held an emotional service later that night in honor of the students killed.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of emotional
Adjective
  • Director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck leans into makeshift theatricality — flashlights, pool noodles, pocket umbrellas — while a nimble ensemble balances meta-theatrical humor with genuine feeling for Pericles and his beleaguered family.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • For all the pom poms about the comeback of theatrical, smaller films have a very hard time, bad reviews or good reviews.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of theatrical
Adjective
  • Accounting for inflation and higher ticket prices, Hollywood’s summer wasn’t quite so historically sensational.
    — Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Las Vegas Review-journal/TNS Three decades, two dozen witnesses and weeks of sensational and fiery testimony later, closing arguments are set to begin Monday in the trial for the only person ever charged with the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of sensational
Adjective
  • The interplay between players and their coaches often generates some of the most dramatic viewing moments of a tennis match.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • But within this storytelling paradigm, Adnani imbues each scene with a dramatic wrath bubbling just beneath the surface.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dramatic
Adjective
  • However in more melodramatic fashion than the film’s title suggests, that past comes back to haunt him in the form of a young man named Miguel Vasque, son of Jorrison’s father’s gardener Carlos (Santiago Cabrera).
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Video games are one of the world’s most dominant storytelling mediums, yet the writing is often dismissed — not always unfairly — as melodramatic, overly serious and occasionally very stupid.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of melodramatic
Adjective
  • As well as the now-traditional throwing of paper airplanes, attendees were also treated to a performance of a new operatic song about fungi, performed by Nobel laureates dressed as mushrooms.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Géricault’s operatic painting shows people reaching toward the sky because a rescue ship is visible on the horizon.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of operatic
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