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Recent Examples of emotionality
Additionally, emotionality’s impact on physical health is negative, possibly due to chronic stress or emotional strain.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
There’s the emotionality to it all, of course, and there’s a follow through, which is part of what this interview is for.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
This is problematic for adults assessing credibility of young children because legal practitioners pay special attention to the level of children’s emotionality when testifying.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
There’s the emotionality to it all, of course, and there’s a follow through, which is part of what this interview is for.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
This is problematic for adults assessing credibility of young children because legal practitioners pay special attention to the level of children’s emotionality when testifying.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Her theatricality, emotionality, romanticism, and understanding of the human condition led her to writing original songs for motion pictures.
—Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emotionality
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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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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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Yet, Marshall seems unwilling to let go of that genial sentimentality.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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That appears to be the point, a Lynchian spin on Hallmark-card sentimentality.—
Matthew Schnipper,
Vulture,
31 July 2025
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What should be a tender, feminist-minded story centered on a young woman rediscovering her dormant childhood dreamer turns into a middling melodrama about being with a cute guy in desperate need of her rescue.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
1 Aug. 2025
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Dunham’s genius, and what made Girls a legitimate cultural event, was to meld heartfelt James L. Brooks-style melodrama with brutally honest reportage about millennial mores, desires, and deficits.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
25 July 2025
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Once Venus enters Leo, there will be greater emphasis on your roots, emotions and home life.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Find the quotes that capture raw emotion, then talk your offer through in simple language.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Dependency and cathexis are also incredibly painful and difficult to extricate yourself from.—
Janey Starling,
refinery29.com,
10 Apr. 2020
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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 19 Aug. 2025.
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