emotionalistic

Definition of emotionalisticnext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionalistic
Adjective
  • That increase has come with a financial strain and emotional stress for families across the country and in North Carolina.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Her relationship with Kerr hits several bumps, giving Blunt the chance to showcase her emotional range in tense scenes.
    Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, shares of fellow theatrical stocks AMC, Cinemark and Marcus Theatres cratered in 2025.
    Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The city’s storefront followers all saw the show as intense, non-linear, fanciful, Chicago-style experimentation with the de rigeur amount of nudity and a darkly comic soul, but no hope whatsoever of expanding its reach beyond the Midwest theatrical shoebox of its birth.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Newspapers would go on to cover the case in a sensational manner for months — with related items making front page news for 31 consecutive days on the cover of the Los Angeles Record, according to The Guardian.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • His downfield accuracy on a handful of throws down the stretch, after an entire season of taking an absolute beating in the pocket, has been sensational.
    Robert Mays, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Now that season 4 is airing, fans continue to dive into every eerie detail of the series’ dramatic setting.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • At the heart of each villa is the Grand Salon, a unified living and entertaining space anchored by a dramatic double-sided glass fireplace.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • There’s nothing sort of overly melodramatic or cathartic about it.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Microdrama episodes tend to run for between 60 and 90 seconds, and follow melodramatic themes in genres such as romance, sci-fi and thriller.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Upano’s operatic scope and clean, elegant sentences really swept me off my feet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That’s fair, for in many ways Venables’s music — with its operatic heights and meditative chants, its detours from classical through bossa nova and Irish jig — is the soul of the thing, revealed in all its richness and variety by the hugely gifted ensemble.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
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“Emotionalistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionalistic. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.

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