Sensational
[sen'seɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [sɛn'seʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion .
(adj.) relating to or concerned in sensation; 'the sensory cortex'; 'sensory organs' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.
(a.) Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.
(a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
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Examples
- Introduced into the schools they would do their work, even if the sensational theory about the way in which they did it was quite wrong. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But nothing sensational was discovered among the documents which filled his drawers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was the beginning of the electric-light furor which soon rose to sensational heights. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Orpah, a vivid, sensational, subtle widow, would go back to the former life, a repetition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Two columns were occupied with a highly sensational and flowery rendering of the whole incident. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They are trash, and will soon be worse trash if I go on, for each is more sensational than the last. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It would be too extravagant and sensational. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A more sensational experiment is to substitute a tapering tin cup for the tube, then fill it with liquid air and immerse it in water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But between two particular people, any two people on earth, the range of pure sensational experience is limited. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The abler speakers were obliged to play to the gallery, and take a sentimental and sensational line. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wall Street is at any time an interesting study, but it was never at a more agitated and sensational period of its history than at this time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I recommend the recent spectacle in New York where the most sensational raider of gambling houses has turned out to be in crooked alliance with the gamblers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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