Emotional
[ɪ'məʊʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [ɪ'moʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) of more than usual emotion; 'his behavior was highly emotional' .
(adj.) determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; 'it was an emotional judgment' .
(adj.) of or pertaining to emotion; 'emotional health'; 'an emotional crisis' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.
Edited by Johanna
Examples
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Yet that sentence which contained their wisdom about particular events has acquired an emotional force which persists long after the events have passed away. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And it is there I would want to meet you--not in the emotional, loving plane--but there beyond, where there is no speech and no terms of agreement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Individuals use one another so as to get desired results, without reference to the emotional and intellectual disposition and consent of those used. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And was not Ursula's way of emotional intimacy, emotional and physical, was it not just as dangerous as Hermione's abstract spiritual intimacy? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whereas Ursula was still at the emotional personal level-always so abominably personal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is a real impersonal me, that is beyond love, beyond any emotional relationship. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But, her courage was of that emotional nature that it brought the irrepressible tears into her eyes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- All emotional things were possible to the speaker of that good night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is indirect, or emotional and intellectual, not direct or personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Science is still too recent to have been absorbed into imaginative and emotional disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But it should contribute through the type of intellectual and emotional disposition which it forms to the improvement of those conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hopkins's writing shows considerable agitation, and he is not an emotional man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At best, it produces a temporary emotional glow; at worst, callous indifference to moralizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The emotional, rather rootless life of the Russians appealed to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is some gratification to a gentleman--here Mr. Trumbull's voice conveyed an emotional remonstrance--in having this kind of ham set on his table. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She was apt, mentally, to condescend to women such as Ursula, whom she regarded as purely emotional. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Knowledge of things in that intimate and emotional sense suggested by the word acquaintance is a precipitate from our employing them with a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No emotional appeal is made for them as there is for the repressions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of course, she was the first to speak--intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous Oh, yes! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It remains for the most part to secure the intellectual and emotional significance of this physical annihilation of space. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was ridiculous to be flying like an emotional coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The changes considered are in outer action rather than in mental and emotional dispositions of behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the moment probably, he would have been glad to see something emotional in me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Creation is an emotional ascent, which makes the standard vices trivial, and turns all that is valuable in virtue to the service of desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All you barbers are emotional. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It means formation of intellectual and emotional disposition as well as an increase in ease, economy, and efficiency of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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