How To Use Emphatic In A Sentence

Discuss emphatically on the process of electrostatics flocking of activated carbon fiber and its adsorbability.
The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
The telescreen was emphatically not for entertainment.
That would secure an emphatic victory and, inevitably, set tongues wagging once more. Times, Sunday Times
But why is conscious experience emphatically positive?

Typically, this part of the film is edited so unemphatically that it appears to place equal emphasis on the little boy's bed-wetting and the death of his mother.
Victor's authority is appealed to by those who deem the last twelve verses of S. Mark's Gospel spurious, it would of course be inferred that his evidence is hostile to the verses in question; whereas his evidence to their genuineness is the most emphatic and extraordinary on record. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
The introductory 11 verses end with 6 standard galliambics, setting off the two principle lines in the middle and their motifs as the most emphatic.
I cannot be emphatic enough in condemning these tohunga, for I have seen the result of their work.
The spicy fruit conserve known as mostarda (most emphatically not mustard) is eaten with meat and game.
The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
‘The persecution makes us strong’, said Vic emphatically.
He knows the work will avail him little, but he has emphatic reasons for wanting to do it. Times, Sunday Times
At Claremorris on Sunday afternoon, the visitors overwhelmed the home side with an emphatic victory.
The story unemphatically revolves around the main character, Chris Gardner, and his son, Christopher.
His pen-and-ink medium now includes heavy doses of watercolor, making painterly qualities more emphatic.
Do not make the last word of each line _emphatic_, unless it is really an _emphatic word_. New National Fourth Reader
Powerful scenes closely reflecting events in the author's own life are diluted by her wordy and overemphatic commentary. Times, Sunday Times
Hendry said he had plenty of room for improvement despite the emphatic result.
If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Senior Geography student Melissa Gordon introduced the band and was an emphatic host for much of the afternoon, shouting at students to "holla" at the day's different happenings. Golden Gate [X]pReSS
There was a shade of meanness in her speech, and she spoke it so emphatically that for a moment he was not sure if she was telling the truth.
Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
I say it and I say it emphatically, without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice, accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered with. Ulysses
The " facts " presented by the studio consisted of a list of emphatic denials about the film.
One day soon he will be confronted by a classmate on campus and he will be told emphatically: stop being such a douche.
The decade immediately preceding Picasso's turn to ceramics saw the century-old debate about craft and society in France take on emphatic new political colorations, first of a leftist cast, and then of a rightist.
A favourite rhetorical device is the appearance of emphatically real-world items in unexpected places. The Times Literary Supplement
When the future historian gives to another age his account of all that is included in German "frightfulness," there is no feature upon which he will dilate more emphatically than the extraordinary use made by the enemy of their Zeppelin fleet. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
Felled by the ward of his intransigence, levelled and laid flat, sword brandished in denial – sword wafting words uttered emphatically in a trial of words by words, falling for the trap of his own rhetorical thirst, falling into the gap between those who run first and those who carp and cry in the pack – an empty husk cracked and ablated, an old fool trashed. Archive 2007-04-01
* Thus, in "The state was made, under the pretence of serving it, in reality the prize of their contention to each of these opposite parties," it is unpleasantly doubtful whether the writer means (1) _state_ or (2) _parties_ to be emphatic. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
The Cup holders got it in emphatic style. The Sun
There appears to be an Ugaritic dialectal change from *ẓ the emphatic interdental ɣ for instance. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
He had made his point in the most emphatic fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Three Stages and the idea of a hierarchy of the sci - ences; the worship of natural science and of technol - ogy; the commitment to a physiological view of the mind; the subjection of the historical process to laws of human nature; the interweaving and interdepend - ence of scientific and historical method; the increas - ingly emphatic view of themselves in messianic terms, and the development of a full-blown religion to replace orthodox Christianity, complete with disciples — all these and other teachings were common to the two men. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
So the Credo leads from a gently flowing opening to boldly dramatic effects, emphatic in the use of timpani and with the Crucifixus bringing a striking unison passage for tenors and basses.
Medial PS emphatics yield MIE mediae well, in the one example you have, but PS mediae yield MIE glottalics? Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
“Robert needs her papers,” Mark said unemphatically. Body of Evidence
Unless it is desired to make the phrase emphatic, or to break the continuity of the thought, the growing usage among writers is not to set it off. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful.
Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.
A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline.
With the emphatic repetition of this line at the end of the book, the image of the omnipotent deity has been exorcized from Vallejo's poetic imagery.
The display would likely be greeted by pandemonium, emphatic shushing, or shocked silence.
FREE MASONRY, CO-MASONRY, AND CATHOLICISM At the end of last month's lesson a few words were said about men and women practicing Mystic Masonry, and it might appear to some as if we en - dorse Co-Masonry, but this is emphatically not the case. Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship
Even her husband, it is said, upon whose fortunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic influence, regarded her with respectful awe rather than confiding attachment; and report said, there were times when he considered his grandeur as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom. The Bride of Lammermoor
It has the emphatic clarity of black-figure incision but is capable of much more subtle modulation.
I had always been emphatic that I didn't know whom I would marry, but one thing was for sure --he would not be a farmer or dairyman!
That is, close up, shut up, or, as is said now, "bung up," -- emphatically, "We kept true time;" and the probability is, that in saying this, Sir Toby would accompany the words with the action of pushing an imaginary door; or _sneck up_. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
'Cleon' belongs to a grand group of poems, in which Browning shows himself to be, as I've said, the most essentially Christian of living poets -- the poet who, more emphatically than any of his contemporaries have done, has enforced the importance, the indispensableness of a new birth, the being born from above An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
He gesticulated violently, and delivered himself in short, emphatic sentences, interlarded, I am sorry to say, with rather too many of those objectionable expletives that an ex-slave-overseer may be supposed to be addicted to. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Ell emphatically denied making the statement, adding that he had nothing against white people.
This was the language of the English and Scottish Enlightenment: sober, unemphatic, good-humoured; a very sociable and moderate language, modern in a way that even we would recognise, and supremely rational and down-to-earth.
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama moved emphatically Wednesday to erase the legacy of the past eight years by calling a bevy of Mideast leaders, circulating a not-yet-released executive order to close the Guantanamo prison and deliberately diminishing the powers of his own presidency. Top Stories - Google News
In some examples it was thought necessary to highlight important distinguishing features with arrows or emphatic shading.
The results are more emphatic than I was expecting and this is extremely good news.
Squitieri, an alumna of WNO's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, was a little overemphatic as Beatrice, stripped of her prototype's smoldering mystery, but had some lovely vocal moments. Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán
This time the result was more emphatic as this excellent college extends its reputation as one of the finest in the college football hierarchy.
A win is a win, but this was hardly the emphatic result needed to banish those Danish blues.
This paper analyzes on and probes into emphatically 14 kinds of rhetoric methods frequently used in advertising documents with the better effect including repeat, metaphor, dualization, etc.
So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole? Looking Back At Richter
Eschenbach repeatedly slips into small but irritating mannerisms, such as a ritard and brief pause before this or that emphatic chord -- a disruption of flow that Mahler, a brilliant conductor, was perfectly capable of writing into the score had he wanted it. As Mahler's death centenary nears, an outpouring of recordings pays tribute
The canvas is at once typical and atypical of the artist's expressionist manner, familiar in its emphatic and swelling interlocking forms, yet unexpectedly still and harmonious in its quality of repose.
It became an emphatically risk-averse society, partly because actions encouraged by the government could not fail, while those undertaken without central support could not succeed.
It may be equivalently priced, but it is emphatically not an equivalent product.
The emphatic capitalization of the ‘Me’ illustrates the dativus ethicus, the so-called ‘ethical dative.’
City had begun with purpose, and barely let up their poised assurance from those emphatic first few seconds. Times, Sunday Times
They were emphatic about the mismatch between their non-nuclear family structures and the conditions they are required to meet under family assistance payment arrangements.
And nowhere upon the inspired pages of the fourth Evangelist, nor in that great Epistle to the Colossians, which is the very citadel and central fort of that doctrine in Scripture, is there more emphatically stated this truth than here, in these incidental allusions. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The answer is emphatic - no. Times, Sunday Times
I answered both questions with an emphatic "Yes".
Now she rustled in with an emphatic announcement of stiff brocade, and enveloped the spectral Angela in an embrace of comfortable arms and bosom.
He is especially emphatic about the value of a precise routine.
The danger of war should be removed and peace safeguarded in the Korean peninsula," said the message, which was also emphatically read by a North Korean anchorwoman, wearing traditional Korean dress, in a state television broadcast monitored in Seoul. North Korea Calls For Better Ties With Warning
Mrs Constable interposed with one single emphatic epithet, not admittable to the ears of this generation; but Andrew resumed, and went on. Alec Forbes of Howglen
New variants often appear first in casual speech, while older ones remain in more emphatic formal styles.
Smita is emphatic that ‘no community lives within its borders’.
In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see. The Caxtons — Volume 11
But this month's emphatic rejection of limited devolution powers by the people of north-east England appears to have put that plan on hold.
A slave appeared in the half-open doorway and scurried away at Adriana's emphatic gesture.
"Oh yes, most definitely, " Lisa agreed with an emphatic nod.
When more complex vaulting occurs - as in the Lady Chapel at Hertogenbosch or the Nassau Chapel at Breda - it is an emphatic sign of elevated status.
I can think of many games where Anil has engineered emphatic wins for India.
That the process involves the FCO in dishonesty, deviousness and dishonour is emphatically encapsulated in the apparent scheme whereby Brussels will delay proposals to scrap Britain's annual £3 billion rebate. Archive 2007-12-23
Although all its dishes are served from a communal "hot table", this handsome freehouse is emphatically not a carvery. Love is in the (open) air
The statement is emphatic in stating that there must be a quid pro quo.
Langs (1974 stated emphatically that the failure to share a preordained termination leads to “overintense, paranoid-like, rageful and vengeful fantasies, which are based on the sense of betrayal, “because the therapist has compromised himself and no longer invites trust” (p. Clinical Work with Adolescents
Words cannot express how emphatically this film withholds the pleasures of film-going.
She has been particularly emphatic about how much she is looking forward to it, on Tuesdays.
The different faults in the area show up as vertical planes cutting emphatically through the crust. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
He knows the work will avail him little, but he has emphatic reasons for wanting to do it. Times, Sunday Times
My points win was so emphatic it finally made all my critics admit I was the best in the world. The Sun
The emphatic affirmation of a supermundane, spiritual order of reality and the equally emphatic assertion of the caducity of things material fitted in with the essentially Christian contention that spiritual interests are supreme. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos.
But on his rapid way he had found time to fling his hazel stick into a corner, his rough broadbrim upon the table, and these few emphatic words at his nephew: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
As the CEO of the laggard portal company, Lansing has faced his share of critics, and most of them are emphatic that his ideas won't work.
Yet because of their long-standing ideology — emphatically expressed by George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld in the year or two before 9/11 — that peacekeeping is not what America should be doing, they never really made the effort to revamp the American military and other institutions of American government that would allow America to do this peacekeeping successfully. Beinart Talks Back
Yesterday's emphatic victory was their fifth in succession.
He kept his cool to lash a second-half penalty into the top corner in emphatic fashion. The Sun
I hope, at least, that by the light of this spark he may apprehend the emphaticalness of all the expressions used in this place to be pointed towards the particular case under consideration, and not in the least to be expressive of the possibility he contends for. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
He won twice over hurdles before switching to fences with an emphatic success at Ludlow last week. The Sun
When Christianity became the dominant force in religion in the West and the official religion of the Roman Empire, opposition to chiliasm became emphatic.
In the worst cases no such meaning exists, and parsing the text reveals only hints of sense in masses of gibberish; other times the alchemy succeeds, and a plain emphatic version of the writer’s intentions suddenly emerges from the jumble of jargon like the hidden image in an autostereogram. December « 2008 « Sentence first
He is especially emphatic about the value of a precise routine.
It can get a little overemphatic at times, but contains some useful material. Times, Sunday Times
The statement is emphatic in stating that there must be a quid pro quo.
‘Yes,’ he agreed, his tone quiet and unemphatic, and regarded her with what seemed to be mingled perplexity and embarrassment.
The trooper ordered them to return to the camp and dress properly, adding emphatically that the stockingless craze must end, even if arrests had to be made to accomplish this end.
Borat's mankini loops around the neck and plunges down to an emphatic pouch.
Which is expressed by the most emphatic word in the interrogative sentence?
The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
He has tried to reduce this latter tendency, of course, but emphatically not for reasons of image. Times, Sunday Times
This is emphatically not a religion of any single book, notwithstanding recent attempts to canonise works such as the Bhagavad Gita. The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger – review
He gave us an emphatic denial.
It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner.
SPECTER: Well, I say that the president might well have asked Arafat last Thursday to make the finite statement we've all been looking for for a long time, that is, to say in Arabic forcefully and emphatically that the suicide bombers should stop the suicide bombing. CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2002
She is emphatically not a modernist or postmodernist author. Times, Sunday Times
He had been so emphatic about it that we had no choice but to accede to his wishes. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
He himself cites no such accomplishments and concedes, as unemphatically as he can, that the U.N. “may be failing” in the Sudan, where its simulacrum of a “rules-based system” lets the government indulge in slaughter without penalty. Stromata Blog:
Yet the diffusive linked progress of Victorian perfectibility seems instinct there nonetheless, grammatically as well as rhythmically, overriding the caesura and all the other shocks and setbacks of progression, not only in the emphatic glottal ligature of "growing good" but in the double semantic bond of the words. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Throughout his career, Cole's trouble has always been an overemphatic desire to justify his existence. Joe Cole's exit forces Liverpool to rely on age-old strengths
The folded half-moon, a sort of quasi-calzone, hides a cache of fontina cheese gigged with emphatic sun-dried tomato: simple and effective.
His protest, though exuberated, against leniency in dealing with atrocities, emphatically requisite in an age apt to ignore the rigour of justice, has been so far salutary, and may be more so.] Thomas Carlyle
The exclamation mark suggests her fear is ungrounded, but the grandfather's answer is emphatic and direct.
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Preston writes and speaks eloquently and emphatically — his responses to questions often best captured in interspersed italicizations. The Journalist and the Murderer
If you look at the atmosphere today, it turns out that it is emphatically nonsolar in composition," says Scientific American
With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties
A determined Midleton had an emphatic 27-8 win away to Portadown and they are now up to fourth in the table.
Now, both these two words, 'laboured' and 'much,' are extremely emphatic. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting." mockest -- upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
While such questions surround a fly half the emphatic answer to the international question is no. Times, Sunday Times
He is also emphatic that he is not a consumerist fanatic.
The 10-minute title track opens with delicate, impetuously flowing lines that grow more emphatic, become glisteningly impressionistic, and then dissolve into quietly playful prancings. Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review
The different faults in the area show up as vertical planes cutting emphatically through the crust. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
There was something emphatic, even challenging, in his pronouncement that discouraged questioning.
She pulls her chenille robe tightly around her, sighs loudly and only after the screen door slams behind her calls out an emphatic, ‘No.’
Tunbridge, and praising the German Spa, in cant words, emphatically and conceitedly pronounced, and brought round upon every occasion, and in every speech, with so precise an exclusion of all other terms, that their vocabulary scarce consisted of forty words in totality. Camilla
Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Wa'adhabberah is the emphatic cohortative, "would that I might," called also the yaqtul gravatum (K.S. 198 b). Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Homer, dreaded nothing more than water or drowning; probably upon the old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul, only extinguishable by that element; and therefore the poet emphatically implieth+ the total destruction in this kind of death, which happened to Ajax Oileus. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Very emphatical, f Gum (minx aifto&a, kttpt With aU keeping, q.d. keep, keep* fit dottbfc guilds, yout* fceam wtll be gone elfe; And this vehemency of eifcfeffi* on, with * hictf the duty is urged, plainty implied ho*r difflciUf it is to keep our hearts, and how dangerous to let them go. v The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...
The first movement of the symphony was fine on Friday night, but after that the wheels started coming off, and by the end of the performance the symphony was an overemphatic, wrongheaded, confusing mess. Luisotti's Brahms and Davies After Hours
He is especially emphatic about the value of a precise routine.
He would deny it emphatically (out of pride? Times, Sunday Times
Fending off a protesting Violet, Briar emphatically closed and locked the door before taking a seat on the sofa.
Finally, it indicated emphatically that combine cognitive psycology and nerval physiology, and will get progress in memory study.
She was equally emphatic about the importance of discipline.
BCP were chiefly trying to counteract when they insisted that "Holy Baptism" was "FULL initiation" into Christ's Body and when the formula that they settled on to accompany the newly restored chrismation in baptism stressed emphatically that the Spirit was given in baptism and not just in some later confirmation rite. Stand Firm
My emphatic counsel to the armed forces is to observe and abide by the military rule of noninvolvement in politics. Let the Swords Encircle Me
Creator, the realizing life to all things fair and true and good: and more especially would we revert to its spiritual purity, emphatically manifested through all its manifold operations, -- so impossible of alliance with any thing sordid, or false, or wicked, -- so unapprehensible, even, except for its own most sinless sake. Lectures on Art
How can they press ahead with something which has now been emphatically rejected THREE times? The Sun
The finish was equally emphatic and the Derby fans celebrated without reservation.
In fact, the women were emphatic about the necessity of making the stories available to young people as part of school curricula.
Instead of underlining the drama with music or emphatic cuts, the film takes a dry, laconic approach.
It may seem astonishing that the tradition that most emphatically insists that there is no self (anatta) may routinely do a better job at transmitting the wise practice of self-care and than do Christian traditions which customarily insist on an eternal soul. John Thatamanil: The Religious Wisdom of Authentic Self-Love
He emphatically rejected any suggestion of caudle or broth for breakfast, and snapped irritably at me when I tried to check the dressings on his hand. Sick Cycle Carousel
Cheney emphatically reaffirms the pro-federalism position on the issue.
To do it so emphatically was probably not on the cards but an amazing feeling. The Sun
My answer is an unequivocal, emphatic yes. The Sun
Note 65: The only reference I have found of medical writings linking women's monthly cycles with the Christian notion of original sin appears in the work of a woman, Hildegard of Bingen's Causae et curae (ed.P. Kaiser [Leipzig, 1903]), in which the author emphatically drew a parallel between Eve's actions in the Garden and menstrual cycles: Quare menstruum. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Led by their three-time MVP, Green Bay answered in emphatic fashion. USATODAY.com
An emphatic victory lifted the Hammers up to the dizzy heights of 13th spot. The Sun
The entrance door and flanking windows are emphatically Gothic with pointed arches, the doorway framed in granite and the windows with granite sills and lintels.
How can Rothstein deny that Nisbett and Wilson would emphatically discount the confirmation which Freud claimed for his theory of parapraxes on the basis of introspective self-observations made by Storfer, himself, and Lou AndrÃ©as SalomÃ© (S.E. 6, pp. 118, 162-163, 168)? How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? An Exchange
The Marriage Plot" is even more emphatically bibliophilic. Sense & Semiotics
Confidently perching or restoratively leaning on it, emphatically plunking it down or cannily relocating it, blithely ignoring it or stymiedly crumpling up over it, Stritch makes the high chair embody moods, objectify states of being.
Of all the campaign promises and declarations you will hear in the next several months, the flimsiest will be the ones containing the assurance that the candidate is taking a "look" -- even the emphatic "hard look" -- at an idea. Chicagotribune.com -
But that emphatically did not mean all-powerful government. Times, Sunday Times
Buckley LJ was even more emphatic, saying that the tenant's argument that the right to future rent which had been transferred was a chose in action was ‘wholly misconceived’ and that the mortgagees were not assignees of the rent.
It's not that veeries are especially handsome thrushes, but I thrill to their song that rolls down the scale in an emphatic and ringing manner.
By using a vowel for each Quarter we are most emphatically not merely following orthodox religious use or occult teaching. Music and the Elemental Psyche: A Practical Guide to Music and Changing Consciousness
But Christian princes were not satisfied with the mere suspension of human justice during these days, which are so emphatically days of mercy: they would, moreover, pay homage, by an external act, to the fatherly goodness of God, who has deigned to pardon a guilty world, through the merits of the death of His Son. Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
That is the emphatic point; the tone of the book, its whole direction, is thereby established.
His response was immediate and emphatic.
When we moved in she was emphatic that she wanted the top floor to herself.
Words that are read more forcibly than other words in a sentence are called _emphatic words_. New National Fourth Reader
Kennelly emphatically denied the claim made by some detainees in the Times article that the leaders of the hunger strike had been put into isolation or transferred to other, more distant detention centers. Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard
Both of them are emphatic that they are not passing any judgment on technology.
Emphatically linear, the works are open, repeating forms that respond to the industrial landscape of northern Indiana, an area he drives through daily to reach Gary from his Chicago home.
The substance of the interview was telegraphed," said Stamfordham, "but not the map -- _not the map_," he said emphatically. The Arbiter A Novel
He adds, therefore, p. 276, “To say that God putteth a case in such solemnity and emphaticalness of words and phrase as are remarkable all along in the carriage of the place in hand, of which there is no possibility that it should ever happen or be exemplified in reality of event, and this in vindication of himself and the equity of his dealings and proceedings with men, is to bring a scandal and reproach of weakness upon that infinite wisdom of his which magnifies itself in all his works; which also is so much the more unworthy and unpardonable when there is a sense commodious, every way worthy as well the infinite wisdom as the goodness of God, pertinent and proper to the occasion he hath in hand, which offers itself plainly and clearly.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
So far the answer is an emphatic no. Times, Sunday Times
Tara, not wanting to let one of her hands go from her ears, started nodding emphatically to the door.
His voice is a harsh, nasal, confused, emphatic bleat, clamping down on certain words and rolling tricky internal rhymes around in his mouth until they come out all broken.
Wilde was emphatic that the event should go ahead.
Thus in the word calenture, nobody will deny that the first syllable is pronounced more emphatically than the others; but many will deny that it is longer in pronunciation. Miscellany
The moral power of Fussell's narrative is all the greater for being so unemphatically delivered.
The result was emphatic, a 4-2 victory for United.
This paper proposes the concept of Internet Smart Card, describes its architecture, and emphatically analyzes the protocol hierarchy of the Smart Card Protocol Stack.
She appeared in fictionalized form in the 1957 film Funny Face as Maggie Prescott, the amusingly dictatorial and emphatic editor of Quality magazine. Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Diana Vreeland, History's Most Joyous Fashion Editor (PHOTOS)
To her credit, Bennhold later admits that perineal therapy in France is, in fact, for incontinence and organ descent -- though she still adds emphatically "and to improve sex," as if this side benefit were salacious enough to discredit the legitimacy of perineal therapy as a health benefit worthy of social coverage. Debra Ollivier: What's Wrong with the (Fighting) French?
From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
I use the word emphatic rather than like because it is not always essential that we have to particularly warm to the company of thecharacters whose journey that we are watching on screen. The Importance Of… Character | Obsessed With Film
This paper proposes the concept of Internet Smart Card, describes its architecture, and emphatically analyzes the protocol hierarchy of the Smart Card Protocol Stack.
This emphatic analysis, along with many other stubbornly negative trials, signals the end for vitamin E as a general prophylactic against cancer and heart disease.
She's too willful an actress, tight and overemphatic; like The Constant Gardener itself, which suffered from an almost masochistic didacticism making its political points. Oscar Day: James Wolcott
When the counties squared up in the championship in Killarney, the outcome was an emphatic win for Kerry.
Jen wants us to take her mother there, and was rather emphatic about it.
Silko is very animated throughout: she punctuates her narrative with emphatic gestures and laughter.

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