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Recent Examples of emotionality
In the first season, that emotionality felt calibrated.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Over the course of more than 70 screen credits, the actor became known as a reliably electric performer, adding texture and emotionality to all of his roles.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Dec. 2025
So victorious, so emotional, so connected, the emotionality was just beyond.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Nov. 2025
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
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Over the course of more than 70 screen credits, the actor became known as a reliably electric performer, adding texture and emotionality to all of his roles.
—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Dec. 2025
So victorious, so emotional, so connected, the emotionality was just beyond.
—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Nov. 2025
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.
—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
6 Nov. 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.
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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.
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So much of Jaeychino’s ethos is informed by the improbability of beating the odds, the sentimentality that comes with that, and the ability to flex on niggas when your tears dry up.
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Season four course-corrected somewhat, but its hard embrace of a bleeding-heart sentimentality around found families and the power of food smacked of self-importance.
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With a deep baritone and a flair for hyperbolic sentimentality, Clayton-Thomas’ melodrama fueled a string of hits for Blood, Sweat, and Tears in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
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Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.
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Having a separate room to have this man handle his emotions may be helpful too.
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If emotions swell, step back for ten minutes, breathe with music, then return to your art with a clearer, kinder tone.
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These films explore those bonds without ever resorting to bromides or mawkishness.
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Then things just unravel into a half-hour of thoroughly phony mawkishness.
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There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis.
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“Emotionality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emotionality. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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