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Adjective
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Seitz said the men had assaulted him, and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and deputies had violated his civil rights, inflicted emotional stress, defamed him and conspired to keep the matter quiet.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026 -
With Spoelstra appreciative of the emotional drain of the experience, as well as the eventual exhilaration.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Ellison’s team hasn’t always been as enamored with the theatrical experience.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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Qualifying week is Georgia politics at its most theatrical — and most consequential.—
AJC.com,
AJC.com,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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La Tour was born in Lorraine, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1593, twenty-one years after Caravaggio, whose sensational combination of naturalism and theater, light and dark, formed him as a painter.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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And some of these songs are not just smart—they’re sensational.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In contrast, many of today's female contestants have Botox-smooth foreheads, clear, dewy skin, dramatic brows and lashes, and sparkling white smiles.—
Erika W. Smith,
Allure,
26 Feb. 2026
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Jean-Luc Godard used nonprofessionals to rend the dramatic fabric and expose the artifices of performance.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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Villain edits unsettle their shows’ storylines by bringing conflict and crisis, typically in ways that are melodramatic and thus immediately legible to viewers.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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Nothing impacting them adjusts the stakes in a way that is inappropriately melancholic or melodramatic.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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The music by George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward blends jazz, blues and spiritual music with operatic forms.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2026
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Find yourself a series that does a bombastic operatic flourish at its midseason cliffhanger (with actual opera) and drops Tennessee Ernie Ford in its season finale.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Emotionalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalistic. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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