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Recent Examples of emotionality
In contrast, climate believers were more likely to show traits like honesty, emotionality, openness, and humility.
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Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Anderson has been accused of many things: putting style before substance, being too sardonic as to lack emotionality, leaning too hard into nostalgia, becoming too fastidious for his own good.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 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
Additionally, emotionality’s impact on physical health is negative, possibly due to chronic stress or emotional strain.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Anderson has been accused of many things: putting style before substance, being too sardonic as to lack emotionality, leaning too hard into nostalgia, becoming too fastidious for his own good.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 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
Additionally, emotionality’s impact on physical health is negative, possibly due to chronic stress or emotional strain.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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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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The heavy-handed sentimentality is a welcome, necessary respite.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Practically the only star who could handle this awkward blend of sincerity and sentimentality was Robin Williams, and rarely has a film premise seemed better suited to his skills.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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In this 1950s melodrama, Korean War vet Lee (Will Poulter) wants to move from Kansas to California to begin a new life with wife Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The set-up could easily slip into grim melodrama, but Jackman infuses it with a pop-tastic fun.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Don't hide from the layers of emotions and frustrations.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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King's works have always run on big, outsized emotions, and De Palma, with all his extra-ness, may have been the perfect director to first bring the author's work to the screen.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 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 13 Sep. 2025.
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