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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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But Duvall was never one to court sentimentality in his performances.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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One that even left behind a note of sentimentality.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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The compact nature of the production, performed without intermission in just over 90 minutes, awkwardly exposes the melodrama that Ibsen took great pains to undercut.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Granted, some ceded ground is required in order to rebuild the story engine, but Season 2 still overindulges in comparably flat characters whose arcs are stuffed with unnecessary backstories and thin melodrama.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
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Kim Rosenstock, who wrote this episode of Love Story, had the framework of what the emotions were based on, but still had to come up with the substance of the fight.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
27 Feb. 2026
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Especially for Deaf audiences for whom ASL is their first language, overlaid interpretation remains rare but can offer more nuance in context, emotion, and tone, address language deprivation, increase comprehension, and reduce cognitive overload and lags in information delivery.—
Abbey White,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 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 2 Mar. 2026.
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