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Recent Examples of emotionality
Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
But the semi-romance that should elevate the plot to a higher level of emotionality has, instead, the opposite effect.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Still, the show’s raw and provocative emotionality is worth sitting with.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2025
The negative emotionality is over a long period of time to get them to a breaking point to act out.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 20 July 2025
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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
But the semi-romance that should elevate the plot to a higher level of emotionality has, instead, the opposite effect.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Still, the show’s raw and provocative emotionality is worth sitting with.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2025
The negative emotionality is over a long period of time to get them to a breaking point to act out.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionality
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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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McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 2025
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The video production is lush, the sentimentality laid on thick — this is a movie that’s far more interested in playing familiar notes about how cinema is magical and storytelling is vital for the already converted than taking a critical look at its subjects.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Richard’s account would probably differ and have more to do with Lorenz’s alcoholism, depression, erratic work habits, and aversion to sentimentality.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn’t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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With unpredictable twists and emotions running high, this Halloween is especially chaotic, and Mutable signs — Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces — can't imagine what's in store.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Far from creating a cold, mechanical work experience, AI collaboration enhanced positive emotions in ways that rival human teamwork itself.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 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 3 Nov. 2025.
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