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Recent Examples of emotionality
The numbers don’t do justice to the way the four power sources play together, however, delivering a seamless rush of force as the electric motors perfectly fill in the gaps in the engine’s power band, combining the immediacy of an EV with the emotionality of a high-revving V12.
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Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
Faking emotionality, the political comic spent the majority of his first segment cracking sarcastic jokes about how ungrateful the American populace is toward the GOP leader.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
These 14 songs never offer the slightest relief from the intense emotionality of the breakdown of her relationship.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
The emotionality around all of this in and around water, like the water has delivered me.
—Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
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Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
Faking emotionality, the political comic spent the majority of his first segment cracking sarcastic jokes about how ungrateful the American populace is toward the GOP leader.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
These 14 songs never offer the slightest relief from the intense emotionality of the breakdown of her relationship.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
The emotionality around all of this in and around water, like the water has delivered me.
—Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionality
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While this gentler effort is unlikely to be similarly impactful, its witty humor and genuine emotionalism recall the best of Pixar, where its director worked as a story artist on such films as Wall-E and Incredibles 2.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Arpino’s interest in popular culture, athletic technique, and unapologetic emotionalism has found a new audience in the post-Balanchine world.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Those songs, with their tinniness and their sentimentality, still had a visceral pull.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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And underlying them all is an unexpectedly sincere exploration of what true love can or should feel like, pitched right on the knife’s edge between sentimentality and cynicism.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2026
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The film walks a tightrope of humor and pathos, having fun with the idea of the ‘disease of the week’ TV melodrama while never diminishing a serious illness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Handling such weighty concepts, a less deft hand might have lapsed into melodrama.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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Beltran said expressing those emotions can bring people together.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Tatum did not sugarcoat the emotions leading up to his return.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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These films explore those bonds without ever resorting to bromides or mawkishness.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
7 Nov. 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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There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis.—
Janey Starling,
refinery29.com,
10 Apr. 2020
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“Emotionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionality. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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