How To Use Emotional In A Sentence

The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times

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Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
Family dislocation has obvious social and emotional costs, especially for the children who lose a parent and often a source of income.
In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
This continued in to the dressing rooms at half-time where coach Delio Rossi had no choice but to hook the emotional Azzuri international, claiming he was 'inconsolable'. Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge
She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
The feelgood factor, a staple of Hollywood, is binned in favour of emotional truth and the complexities of human nature.
Therefore "energetically" don't we just offer up more emotional violence into the soup? Time to Re-Assess How We Celebrate Presidents Day
Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence. Stephen Petronio Company – review
The SF - 36 dimension representing role limitations due to emotional problems was dichotomised for analysis, since the original scale contains only four values.
At an emotional news conference, members of the women's eight apologised for breaking national Olympic rules and expressed regret at condemning their team mate.
We can't show each other any favoritism, can't put the others at risk because of emotional entanglements. MINUTES TO BURN
Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
Spectacular Soviet successes in rocketry, beginning with Sputnik, sent the United States into a deep emotional depression.
The reward is tremendous weight and presence; the downside emotional crudity.
In a career, emotional involvement is essential for the Leo to feel fulfilled.
I have watched over the years as she has expended much time and emotional energy in dealing with these cases. Times, Sunday Times
The ferocious battle for good schools and good universities is so expensive and emotionally draining that no parent would want to endure it twice. Times, Sunday Times
It includes strategies for promoting high academic achievement as well as off-setting problems of alienation, disengagement, and emotional distress.
This is very much in line with the contemporary need to have everything explained in cerebral, rather than emotional terms.
A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more. Times, Sunday Times
his emotional state depended on her opinion
He has suffered life-long behavioural and emotional difficulties. The Sun
You're supposed to be somewhat separated from your client so you can divorce yourself from some of the emotional issues.
He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.
The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury, especially to children, has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently.
The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically, intellectually and emotionally.
But "LeAnn Rimes," the 17-year-old star's new CD of country classics, may be uniquely bizarre: not because it's unidiomatic, but because it's so emotionally empty. An Abc Of Country Song Covers
I don't deserve this and I am too mature to play silly emotional games.
It had been rather emotional for those groups that were eliminated in the second round.
These may be true, but these are arguments that appeal to the dispassionate mind of a judge, not the emotional public fervor.
A tremendous production that packs an emotional wallop. Times, Sunday Times
It seems like some critics who at one moment will adulate a neo-realistic picture for its unwavering depiction of an emotional truth will the next second decry a film for depicting violence in a graphic/real way. Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me | /Film
The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies. On the Sublime
Hamilton said that, depending on how the students fared emotionally Tuesday morning, he might cancel classes in the afternoon.
A subcategory of this genre of books is composed of in-depth narrative accounts of the experiences of individual students applying to Ivy League colleges, their every emotional nuance dwelled on in luxuriant detail. Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
The family is shaping excellent personality life textbook, is to stimulate the spirit of power source, is the emotional rain nourishes the soul.
The emotional tone of the two images is subtly different.
Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. Brene Brown
His monologue casts light on the common experience of the stereotypical man who is unemotional, uncaring, and cold.
Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
They managed to shift about half of the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed patients to homes and less restrictive programs.
A secure environment is the seedbed of emotional growth.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
If you put yourself through this process, be prepared for the emotional arc. Times, Sunday Times
Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice? Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
All the children had been physically and emotionally abused.
That he has regained sufficient emotional stability, after many years of considerable distress, to perform before live audiences is welcome.
Throughout the day, the atmosphere was emotional and tense. Times, Sunday Times
Abortion is not a painless procedure, it kills a living unborn baby and can scar a woman both emotionally and physically.
I asked him if he felt emotionally or materially deprived because there were no more dinosaurs or brontosauruses -'And what did he say? YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The tone of his poetry is restrained and unemotional.
But there are also those who lack the emotional stamina and resilience to cope with the pressure of continually having to succeed. Times, Sunday Times
Many children have become emotionally disturbed as a result of the abuse they have suffered.
He got quite emotional during the speech.
There are things he made me do in the film, very intense emotional work, that I didn't know I was capable of.
On the other hand, I feel so clearly a certain nearness, spiritually and psychologically, to Henry Stuartwell, I guess there is even an emotional counterpart, too. Sonny Brewer - An interview with author
It isn't a disease but may be a symptom of severe constipation or emotional difficulties related to stool holding.
It is clearly a job which involves people, often with deep-seated problems, emotional issues and where the stakes can be high.
His clinical experiences taken together provided the basis for, as well as continuing opportunity to re-evaluate, his theory of early emotional development.
Directed by Aroona Irani who also acts in it, its hour long-episodes have of late been hitting enough of an emotional pitch to delight those who love a well-made tear-jerker.
He was a cheerful, gregarious man, as endlessly curious as a cat, highly emotional and susceptible.
Irrational or disturbed emotional reactions, however, are often maladaptive.
Children who witnessed these kinds of parental disputes also tended to be more emotionally secure and well-adjusted socially.
Since you, the parent is the baby's primary source of physical and emotional nourishment, your well being can contribute to the presence or absence of colic.
The debate was highly emotional at times.
But what we know is these women often tend to be what we call interpersonal offenders, where they exploit children emotionally, if not sexually. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007
Emotionally expressive individuals are perceived as more visible, more attractive, and more likeable than unexpressive individuals.
People who are emotionally needy or manipulate others to get their own way by making them feeling guilty are unconscious vampires.
To write a form of lyric poetry that was intensely emotional, but sidelined my own ego. Times, Sunday Times
No one likes receiving emotional, intemperate outbursts, even from people who think they have been wrongly accused.
He, too, was totally aware of the emotional content of each song and cut his musical cloth accordingly while accompanying with true artistry.
This was where we weighed anchor from the emotional storm. Times, Sunday Times
But an awful lot of preverbal emotional signaling and interactions are going on in the first two years of life, which lay the groundwork and the foundation for language.
He also sends his friend Dr. Lefebre, an observant alienist, to check on the emotional well being of the distraught Lucy whose aunts insist she is deranged. A Mortal Curiosity-Ann Granger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Maps often have that emotional and aesthetic pull for me.
In Tansley as in Brennan you will find descriptions of a hierarchy of subtle energy sheaths or bodies called the etheric, emotional, mental and higher bodies that surround the physical body. The epiphenomenal view of mind
We get an extended mental digression from him on how to emotionally distance oneself from crying people.
He was emotionally unstable.
The feudal system is cloistered and I welcomed the change as it gave me a chance to grow emotionally and spiritually.
You're too emotionally involved with the situation.
Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
Polak is a powerful presence in the lead, displaying remarkable physical and emotional range, while Treasa Levasseur is a standout in both comic and tragic turns.
They say its their heritage and they're very emotional about it.
Data on gender differences in self-reported emotional intensity and expressivity are conflicting.
Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently.
We are emotionally drained and physically exhausted. Times, Sunday Times
His mother Jacqueline resorted to emotional blackmail to try to make him stop.
Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
In many cases where young boys sexually offend there was a family history of emotional, sexual and physical abuse.
There are also moments when the emotional responses of key characters in key situations completely fail to ring true.
Under Kevin Sutley's direction, this production finds a queasy pace, coloured as much by the insane bingeing on stage as the emotional minefield it traverses.
The parents made an emotional plea to their child's kidnappers.
In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.
Women tend to consider extramarital unions for emotional fulfillment rather than for recreational sex.
Exhausted, and at a moment of massive emotional import, unique and unrepeatable, Martin Johnson gets a microphone shoved in his face and is asked for his reaction.
Why should it be this emotional scale (as opposed to joy vs. pain, or pride vs. envy) whose expressions are subject to positive-to-negative inversion?
She qualified that by saying any other country, but she was in an emotional maelstrom. Times, Sunday Times
Meditation taught me not to overidentify with my flickering, rapidly altering emotional states, but rather view them as visiting wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
They claim to get emotional support there. The Sun
He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
DSK's defenders paint her as fragile and emotionally unstable. Times, Sunday Times
These small detractions don't stop Raimi's film from being a superlative movie, a rare sequel that betters its predecessor, a rare blockbuster that has an emotional heart.
Why not pause for a moment and bathe in the emotional afterglow of that statement?
The positive vibrations of group prayers, he said, helps develop emotional integrity and strengthens relationships.
They bring their emotional baggage with them. Times, Sunday Times
The dominant emotional reaction to the letter was shock and disbelief or anger and indignation.
It's admittedly cheesy and sentimental but it's important to me because it represented a big emotional closure for me.
Show me a folk music audience and I'll show you the emotionally needy.
Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
I was blown away by it, especially the emotional quality it has. The Sun
As one researcher writes in a study on moods and menstruation in college students, 'negative behavior exhibited premenstrually is perceived as evidence for the prevailing negative stereotype of female emotional behavior while positive behavior is ignored as something for which biology is irrelevant.' PMS
If not, better to burst the bubble while you are still emotionally intact. Times, Sunday Times
Injuries, then, have a great emotional resonance.
Yet the thought of being emotionally vulnerable had him gripped with fear. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, if in an emotional dream you injured someone intentionally, you could perform a simple penance the next day to atone, such as fasting one meal.
The family is shaping excellent personality life textbook, is to stimulate the spirit of power source, is the emotional rain nourishes the soul.
Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
And what about her emotional strain upon being ditched?
Her voice is good if not emotionally gripping and her songs have an attractive quality but an edgy stimulant is sadly lacking.
The corporate market is not big on emotional responses to technology though.
In other words, we can't afford to properly police copyright laws so we'll try and use emotional blackmail to keep people in line.
We try to give them emotional support and an idea of what is right and wrong.
I like to think of myself as relatively calm and level-headed, pretty much trundling along on an emotional even keel.
Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy.
A secure environment is the seedbed of emotional growth.
She was repeatedly told that there was nothing physically wrong with her, that the pain must be emotionally caused.
Education and knowledge without hard work do not necessarily guarantee success, and imprudence, indiscipline and emotional impulsivity contribute to failure. Dr T.P.Chia
The more she pesters him with emotional calls, the more irritated he becomes.
America's emotional attachment to flags attests the country's penchant for patriotic spectacle.
Humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
Don't speak, one can lazy pig to sleep with a rod, and three insolation, a person can follow one's inclinations no emotional baggage.
You feel jumpy and emotional and those great rolling waves of nostalgia you're trying to suppress are washing over you like waves on a beach. The Sun
Sometimes for comic effect — loved how Santana's hilariously torchy "Trouty Mouth" ode to Sam was briefly trending on Twitter — but more frequently for overdue emotional payoff, because as Mr. Shue says, "The greatest songs are about hurt. Matt's TV Week in Review
In this programme she revisits them to hear about the emotional ups and downs and complications of interracial adoption. Times, Sunday Times
'There's a general emotional difference between men and women as they perceive and take risks,' said Jennifer Lerner, a psychologist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Others claim it to be psychogenic, an emotional state of mind that causes a physiological reaction. TOUCH
It was Chief Buthelezi, who despite the IFP/ANC agreement, continued to politicise and emotionalise this question by demanding that Ulundi be the capital. Contents
His emotional plea moved the students to organise a special blood-giving day at the beginning of the college year.
The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism. Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe
At first we seem to be in familiar terrain, both emotionally and geographically, since this story of a fractured marriage has been shifted from Oz to England.
An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.
Or the emotional schism caused by choosing between two parents?
This is an age when we boast of our emotional intelligence and we claim to feel each other's pain.
The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
Lasky and Zukor were Jews, landsmen, and Cecil was only half a landsman, and not even that much emotionally. Empire of Dreams
Section Two analyzes the theme choice of his poetry from three directions of emotional sigh, the painfulness of losing family and homeland as well as the feeling of reclusion.
Although the movie feels the need to soundtrack her demise with emotional pop ballads just to ensure tears. The Sun
He is not afraid of letting go of responsibilities and you being his emotional anchor. The Sun
Separation is a time of high emotional stress.
Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
Today, marriage is viewed as the natural outcome of emotional and sexual maturation, and a prolonged single status is stigmatizing for women.
Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
It accepts no slackers, either emotionally (there is a 'spiritual resiliency test') or physically. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who tells students that there is only one way is putting them ‘into emotional corsets' and preventing them from fulfilling themselves.
The advertising companies, currently employed by the parties, have no qualms about emotional manipulation.
Thus, although the loss of a job is very often the cause of injured feelings and emotional upset, the law does not recognize these as compensable losses.
He became emotionally distant from his friends and family after the illness.
Even though she's presented as an emotionally cold person and therefore more of an antiheroine, she's relieved from being tarred with the usual misogynist brush in a few key ways. "On the Female Vampire," Evie Byrne Guest Post
The movie's emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites.
Are you saying that you're becoming emotionally involved with me?
It's much easier to speak critically of each other's work because we have other emotional ties to keep us going when we bicker about song structure. The Sun
In other cases, mealtime social interactions were non-verbal and included a smile, a gentle touch on the leg, or eye contact between two people, all of which could be considered a form of emotional nurturance.
Separation is not psychologically satisfying or emotionally empowering for some individuals.
A person does not take one emotional thump in the face and willingly put himself up for more. Times, Sunday Times
Rationally, he knows that she won't ever go back to him, but emotionally he can't accept it.
If a word stirs your feelings in one way and those of some of your readers in another, you cannot use that word safely; in spite of the most careful definitions and disclaimers the emotional bias will creep in and twist the effect of your words in the minds of some of your audience. The Making of Arguments
Kuang and his troupe of tyro assassins are younger and more in over their heads than they realize, and things get emotionally and operationally out of hand with a rapidity that is stunning.
Emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause.
I wonder if he thinks his mailbag is a sign that the English are genuinely becoming more emotional about food. The Guardian World News
All of these reports focused heavily on the emotional intensity of Blair's speech.
There aren't many stories that combine emotional acuity, formal daring and finely crafted gags quite like this. Times, Sunday Times
These are complex, emotional pieces played with dazzling technique. The Sun
Using the picture of a sad little kid in their advertisement seems like emotional blackmail.
So what kind of emotional fireworks can we expect from her?
Though Paul had wanted a child, he wasn't emotionally ready for it.
Politicians have a limited emotional range - normally just rampant egomania or self pity.
The mother is still on the stand and emotionally unable to continue on.
As it all comes together, it is a highly emotional finale indeed. The Sun
When we are emotionally upset and complain that we can no longer think straight we are in fact quite correct.
What was not explained was that for a couple of days afterwards, spots can erupt and you can feel strange, or more emotional than usual.
Exercise improves posture, aids weight loss, increases flexibility and relieves emotional stress and tension.
Others find this more difficult - they may become withdrawn emotionally, or completely overreact to events.
Street hustlers and gang members, far from rejecting traditional roles, continue to aspire to a situation where they can raise their children in economic and emotional security.
The word 'coward' is a strong one, but the reality is that because we have such wildly different perspectives on why racial disparities exist, and because they continue to exist long after explicit racism has been outlawed, discussion of racial issues requires a high degree of tolerance for conflict, both intellectual and emotional. Guest Post:: It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right
His work emphasised the emotional as well as the physical well-being of children.
He also is undecided on his emotions, chopping and changing between angry violent outbursts and whiny emotional pleas.
The results suggest the right side of the brain is important for processing emotional tone, or prosody, while the left side is important for processing emotional meaning, or semantics.
Considering the possibility of emotional trauma resulting from such a programme is crucial.
I was very upset and emotionally drained, and very weepy.
A facility such as this is always going to arouse strong emotional feelings regarding its location.
The disappointment will stem from the fact that a single viewing is not enough to leave a vivid memory of a single line of quotable dialogue or a scene that has real emotional impact.
In the emotional reaction to the attacks in New York and Washington, sloganeers drowned out intelligence.
The way the director uses details like the character's cringing posture conveys a sense of loss and deep emotional wounds.

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