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Recent Examples of emotionality
The negative emotionality is over a long period of time to get them to a breaking point to act out.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 20 July 2025
In contrast, climate believers were more likely to show traits like honesty, emotionality, openness, and humility.
—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
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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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 20 July 2025
In contrast, climate believers were more likely to show traits like honesty, emotionality, openness, and humility.
—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
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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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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Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Walsh and Sherman both recognized Lupino’s superior intellect and resistance to unearned sentimentality.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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Italy has picked Francesco Costabile’s dark melodrama Familia as its Oscar contender for the 2026 Academy Awards in the best international feature film category.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Swift’s 149-show, five-continent expedition encapsulated a tsunami of emotions not just among her fans, but her own journey through a very public breakup, a fling and, as indicated by her engagement to Kelce, knee-buckling love.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Each verse is a heartfelt exploration of sorrow, capturing the complexity of human emotions in the face of separation.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
3 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 4 Oct. 2025.
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