emotive

• “The idea of things being more emotive is very interesting.”

  A Look to the Future: Wanna Play?

• “The proponents of euthanasia always talk in emotive terms about people dying in great distress.”

  New NHS Cost-Saving Strategy Unveiled

• “Since Orwell, so far as we know, had not been in this condition, the comparison, while perhaps effectively emotive, is logically meaningless.”

  Revisiting Orwell's Wigan Pier

• “Britain would be "mad, literally mad" to abandon them to Amin's whim, he said - and then he coined the emotive phrase for which we will always remember him: "Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

  New Statesman

• “Obviously, the word "league" did exist, derived from the Latin ligare ( "to bind"), but it was the creation of football leagues that made the expression emotive and understood by all.”

  New Statesman

• “In all of these cases we have what Jakobson calls the emotive function.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “And it's so emotive, which isn't much helped by Richard Dawkins rather inflaming the issue to promote atheism.”

  News from the House of Sticks -

• “I think what Mr. Savelli calls the emotive force of mankind helps to balance our own personal emotions," said be.”

  The Fortunate Youth

• “Johnson borrows something of his technique from Harrison, a device I would call emotive exposition, which lends declarative statements of fact a certain kind of dramatic force, and harks back to the work of Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “Mr. Obama as clinical and insufficiently emotive, which is really just another way of saying the president is not really knowable.”

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