Word Finder - sensationalism

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The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.

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A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.

Of nearly all the books in this class it may be said that they deal largely in sensationalism and pornography, though it does not follow that their language is either coarse or licentious.

A larger one, holding 5000 persons, was built for him in 1873, but even this could not contain the crowds attracted by his eloquence and sensationalism.

In France, the home of Cartesian realism, after the vicissitudes of sensationalism and materialism, which became connected in French the French mind with the Revolution, the spirit of Descartes revived in the 19th century in the spiritualistic realism of Victor Cousin.

It is important to notice the energy of his declaration against the argument of ontology, and also against Condillac's sensationalism.

It should be noticed that Hartley's sensationalism is far from leading him to exalt the corporeal pleasures.

And we will stand out like a beacon of light in a media market dominated by sensationalism and distortion.

No tabloid sensationalism Geoff, the facts tell their own story.

This was a performance which carefully avoided any sensationalism or attention-grabbing dependence on the big numbers.

This doesn't mean you have to use tabloid sensationalism.

Beyond the mere sensationalism, how important is persona in understanding an artist's practice?

Page 2002 promotes an approach which he has recently named mindless sensationalism.

The acceleration of the news cycle by necessity leads to less careful checking, while competition leads to more sensationalism.

It merely seeks sensationalism of the worst kind presumably to fill vacant page space.

This does n't mean you have to use tabloid sensationalism.

Such sensationalism is little more than an advertising pitch.

Beyond the mere sensationalism, how important is persona in understanding an artist 's practice?

Page 2002 promotes an approach which he has recently named Mindless Sensationalism.

Media sensationalism has been the basis for many people 's opinions of violent videogames.

To me " gossip " sounds perilously close to " tabloid sensationalism ".

Apart from the adoption by Hume of the association of ideas as the explanatory formula of the school - it had been allowed by Malebranche within the framework of his mysticism and employed by Berkeley in his theory of vision - there are few fresh notes struck in the logic of sensationalism.

But as Locke's philosophy became in France sensationalism, and as Locke's pregnant question, reiterated by Collins, how we know that the divine power might not confer thought on matter, led the way to dogmatic materialism, so deism soon gave way to forms of thought more directly and completely subversive of the traditional theology.

For the time, however, he tranquilly pursued his studies, writing those notes on Vieta which establish his proficiency in mathematics, and a metaphysical treatise now lost, which, if Foscarini's account of it may be relied upon, anticipated the sensationalism of Locke.

Today's couples, however, have many different options for creating incredibly unique cakes to celebrate their nuptials with sweet sensationalism.

This is rather unusual, but since the focus of the show tends to be about "big" people finding love, and considering the sensationalism that reality TV can sometimes create, it's not surprising.