Word Finder - emotional

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Of or relating to the emotions.

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emotional crisis

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Characterised by emotion.

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Determined by emotion rather than reason.

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emotional decision

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Appealing to or arousing emotion.

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emotional speech

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Easily affected by emotion.

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She’s an emotional person.

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Readily displaying emotion.

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emotional greeting

We have understandable emotional responses to all these situations.

I've just been so emotional lately.

All her emotional and physical efforts were directed toward helping him recover and taking care of things at home.

His emotional voice was like an alarm clock in her brain.

At that moment of emotional tenderness young Nicholas' face, which resembled his father's, affected Pierre so much that when he had kissed the boy he got up quickly, took out his handkerchief, and went to the window.

To write an account of symphonic instrumentation in any detail would be like attempting a history of emotional expression; and all that we can do here is to point out that the problem which was, so to speak, shelved by the polyphonic device of the continuo, was for a long time solved only by methods which, in any hands but those of the greatest masters, were very inartistic conventions.

Don't get all emotional on me now.

The more emotional and ingratiating the expression of Natasha's face became, the more serious and stern grew Sonya's.

She clutched his wrists, the logical side of her brain preparing to remove his hands from her face, the emotional side wishing he would repeat the kiss.

But the emotional side of him wanted to wring the man's neck.

After Dad died, there was neither time nor emotional strength for a pet.

Deals made while the negotiator is distracted or emotional are easier to win, he said.

She was quiet as she put form to her thoughts beyond the emotional turmoil.

The words were swift and emotional and she had no doubt he spoke the truth.

Must be some emotional failing.

He didn't like emotional attachments to anything; it was hard to leave when one was stuck.

Emotional hurt wasn't satisfying enough.

He hated all this emotional nonsense, and had it been anyone but Sarah, he would have made a hasty retreat and stayed away until the waterworks passed.

The emotional connection was even more powerful when he was inside her.

Strange how such a placid moment could stir up such emotional turmoil.

We were both a little emotional at the time.

She was impatient, anxious, emotional… nothing like the women he knew, which both interested him and warned him.

Though Dean wished to remain at hand's-length from her troubled life he quickly sensed from her disjointed description Cynthia had been correct when she assessed that the woman carried serious emotional pain.

Mums hugged her tightly, too emotional to speak.

But in terms of wanting to converse with robots at an emotional level, I just don't see it.

Maybe it was the emotional high they were feeling because of the babies, but something seemed to have shifted their foundation.

As the Guardian, he'd been her emotional support, and he'd imagined this look when she discussed how scared she was of what was going on outside the Peak.

The logical side of her mind had accepted the fact that he couldn't give her a child, but the emotional side still rebelled.

He Traveled to them, wanting to blow off some of the emotional build-up and kill those that threatened everyone around him.

This was due, no doubt, to his revulsion from the sternness of his upbringing and the period of stress through which he passed in early manhood, but also to the sympathetic and emotional qualities which manifested themselves in his early manhood.

Thereafter each accepted the emotional limits of their arrange­ment—it would never evolve to something like love or even affec­tion and surely not a long-term relationship.

Likely he was feeling emotional about it and using work as an excuse.

Life was simpler without emotional attachments.

Whatever other gifts Comte may have had - and he had many of the rarest kind, - poetic imagination was not among them, any more than poetic or emotional expression was among them.

The unconventional marriage of Porter (Kline) to divorced socialite Linda Lee Thomas (Judd) provides the film 's emotional core.

Some believe that the notion of emotional catharsis is ridiculous.

They may also tell you, though, of the emotional rollercoaster ride that the adoption process was.

If after several weeks, you still feel an emotional detachment to your child, contact your doctor.

It changed thought into an emotional dream; it plunged into the ocean of sentiment; it treated the old world of fable as the reflection of a higher reality, and transformed reality into poetry; and after all these expedients, to borrow a phrase of Augustine's, it only saw afar off the land of its desire.

He, his immediate follower, Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764), other clergymen, such as James Davenport, and many untrained laymen who took up the work, agreed in the emotional and dramatic character of their preaching, in rousing their hearers to a high pitch of excitement, often amounting to frenzy, in the undue stress they put upon "bodily effects" (the physical manifestations of an abnormal psychic state) as proofs of conversion, and in their unrestrained attacks upon the many clergymen who did not join them and whom they called "dead men," unconverted, unregenerate and careless of the spiritual condition of their parishes.

At the time of the "Great Awakening" of 1740-1743 and afterwards, Chauncy was the leader of the so-called "Old Light" party in New England, which strongly condemned the Whitefieldian revival as an outbreak of emotional extravagance.

He had the Oriental's power of endurance, alternating with violent and emotional courage.

He was simply a fair representative of the Italian piety of his day - amiable, ascetic in his personal habits, indefatigable in many forms of activity, and of more than respectable abilities; though the emotional side of his character had the predominance over his intellect.

But Fredeiick Williams emotional and kindly temperament little fitted him to use the mailed fist; though the riot which broke out in Berlin on the 15th of March was suppressed by the troops with but little bloodshed, the king shrank with horror from the thought of fighting his beloved Berliners, and when on the night of the 18th the fighting was renewed, he entered into negotiation with the insurgents, negotiations that resulted in the withdrawal of the troops from Berlin.

He carried out the principle of association into the analysis of the complex emotional states, as the affections, the aesthetic emotions and the moral sentiment, all which he endeavoured to resolve into pleasurable and painful sensations.

Although the Vaishnava sects hitherto noticed, in their adoration of Vishnu and his incarnations, Krishna and Ramachandra, usually associate with these gods their Brot wives, as their saktis, or female energies, the sexual element is, as a rule, only just allowed sufficient scope to enhance the emotional character of the rites of worship. In some of the later Vaishnava creeds, on the other hand, this element is far from being kept within the bounds of moderation and decency.

But the total value of his poetical work is discounted by the imperfection of metrical form, the presence of incongruous images, the predominance of the intellectual over the emotional element, and the lack of flow.

They are not so emotional as Suso's, nor so speculative as Eckhart's, but they ar intensely practical, and touch on all sides the deeper problems of the moral and spiritual life.

Those who cared for religion or morality Moralaad had forgotten that man is an imaginative and emotional religious being.

Crystals are used to aid the bodies own healing ability for physical, emotional and mental imbalances, which can lead to illness.