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Synonyms for emotive

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Synonyms for emotive

relating to, arising from, or appealing to the emotions

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Synonyms for emotive

characterized by emotion

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The trope of listing in Sade is essential in that the Sadean sexual encounter manifests as a listed breakdown of stage directions or crude instructions, which list with limited emotiveness the theatricalization of sexual intercourse.
Three readings of "The Road Not Taken" reveal how Frost plays these two phrasings against each other, the one insisting on literary emotiveness, the other dismissing it with a shrug.
The theoretical assumption that founded the assessment and categorization of scenes and acts of violence advertised by televisions was the idea that televised violence has primarily an economic motivation which is characteristic to the assembly of media industry that capitalizes in a spectacular dramatized register addressed especially to human emotiveness, elements, facts, traits belonging to the real-world of the individual and of social groups.
To reduce the possible distracting effect of vividness, in the present study vividness was experimentally manipulated at a relatively low level (see emotiveness values in Table 1) and was made relatively equal across all the experimental messages.
Morality should be left to social conveniences and emotiveness and in this way peace will be sustained.
89), is used in Homer to create vividness, emotiveness, and to highlight the veracity of the narrative (pp.
Crossbred with the likes of Jurassic Park and The Birds, however, it takes on a befuddled persona with infantile gags and cheesy emotiveness clashing against horrific scenes of suffering and mutilation.
emotiveness, whilst retaining the basic raga framework.
The work is laugh-out-loud funny, and as if to counteract its outsize emotiveness, Liden showed it on what was certainly the most modest television monitor available at the local Best Buy.
Among the most notable findings related to anger, hostility and aggression in the delinquent population are those of Caspi, Moffiti, Newman, and Silva (1994), who reported a relationship between delinquency and negative emotiveness. That is, a marked tendency among delinquents to be annoyed, anxious and irritable.
The elephant issue remains central to CITES though, unfortunately, the emotiveness of the ivory debate has not dissipated and the divisions are as deep now as at any time in the past.Aa IUCN is concerned, that much of this may be diverting efforts from the real issues and what must really be done to reduce the impact of illegal killing on Africa's elephants.
Our major skills are detecting gross and minute deviations in the mental status exam and the range and nuances of patients' behaviors, insight, judgment, cognition, coping skills, internal conflicts, drives, compulsions, thought processes, personality traits, decision-making, resilience, social skills, interpersonal adroitness, truthfulness, emotiveness, impulsivity, ambition, perceptions, perceptiveness, verbal and nonverbal communications, defense mechanisms, and outlook on life.
Lexical Incongruence in Arabic-English Translation Due to Emotiveness in Arabic.