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emotional Adjective

— Emotional is when your feelings control what you do, rather than reason. His reasons for buying the old house were emotional. — To be emotional, you show more emotion than is usual. She became quite emotional when her small child was missing. — Emotional can be used to describe how the emotions affect things. The music was quite emotional and made everyone feel very sad.

emotional

— adjective determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason it was an emotional judgment — adjective of more than usual emotion his behavior was highly emotional — adjective of or pertaining to emotion emotional health an emotional crisis — adjective (= worked up) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion he would become emotional over nothing at all she was worked up about all the noise

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Language and thought

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Simple sentences

I can't keep this up. It's an emotional roller coaster around here and all we have to do is look at the boss's face to know whether everybody is going to be happy or sad.

The divorce left the man with emotional wounds.

An exclusively behavioral approach to psychology ignores family problems, school situations, and a host of other issues that can adversely affect a child's emotional and psychological growth.

Martina fears emotional closeness.

Would it be better if numbers were completely arbitrary and had no emotional associations?

Culture shock is often described as an emotional rollercoaster.

She's very emotional.

Tom is emotional.

You're very emotional.

Tom is a little emotional.

Careful! Emotional dependency is not synonymous with love!

Tom lacks emotional intelligence.

Tom was emotional.

You should never make big life decisions when you're emotional.

You are backing yourself into a bad emotional corner.

They are more emotional than we.

I agree on an emotional level, but on the pragmatic level I disagree.

Let's not get emotional.

Tom became emotional.

Don't get emotional.

Tom doesn't get emotional.

I'm a very sensitive and emotional person.

Movie subtitles

And from the emotional point of view, this must feel like an extraordinary violation and betrayal.

Emotional farewell after a delightful stay!

Now, Gallagher, if I could only get a great scene a tremendously emotional scene.

And please, no emotional entanglements.

But that sort of viewpoint is purely emotional, not economic.

Steward, two drinks. - Well, I'm all emotional.

Don't get emotional.

That always makes me feel pent-up and emotional.

The slightest emotional shock might make him worse.

All you barbers are emotional.

I've done a great deal of research on emotional problems - and love difficulties.

I'm trying to convince you that your lack of human and emotional experience is bad for you as a doctor and fatal for you as a woman.

I had no time for an emotional scene.

I am getting emotional. as I had been afraid to.

If we could only get a great scene, a tremendously emotional scene.

Paralysis of the larynx, caused by fear or any extraordinary emotional tension.

But there are several scenes. the ones you'd call emotional.

I'm all emotional.

Well, I'm all emotional.

You need have no fear that I would make any emotional demands upon you.

There's no emotional hangover, is there, Rusty?

Well, you know what an emotional type Tom is.

Find some new emotional outlet.

Season three's an emotional roller coaster.

You have the kind of no-nonsense honesty and raw emotional insight that I look for in a commercial real estate lawyer.

Say, you couldn't be hinting that she married me on an emotional bounce-back?

But it's emotional.

I had neither the time nor the inclination for an emotional scene. By the time the police reached the plane wreckage I was gone to the launch I had waiting.

I am getting emotional. as I had been afraid to. having to part with you. But a great love unites you with a loving husband.

Before getting emotional you ought to know there are often moments when I think of killing you.

We, the true fairies, are so emotional that we can grow old or young as easily as you, humans, turn pale or red.

And if he had no emotional interest in me, he wouldn't have wanted to. strike me.

The court cannot disregard certain emotional implications. which apparently have remained undetected by opposing counsel.

Medals have an emotional appeal for you, Sammy.

News and current affairs

Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.

Hovland drew upon ideas dating back to Aristotle's Rhetoric, which argued that persuasiveness is built on the communicator's ethical character, the audience's emotional state, and the logic of the argument, the latter being the most powerful.

Many of the most common psychiatric disorders that afflict humans are emotional disorders; many of these are related to the brain's fear system.

Research into the brain mechanisms of fear helps us to understand why these emotional conditions are so hard to control.

Studies of the basic biology of the fear system are likely to continue to reveal important information both about where our emotions come from and what goes wrong in emotional disorders.

This suggests that preschool provides a qualitative boost to children's social skills or emotional development that enables them to take better advantage of economic opportunity later in life.

But our emotional reactions, from frustration and anger to sadness, have been cushioned and sublimated by our work, the long rhythm of our days together, and, above all, by the support of family and close friends.

Much of the emotional force of Mao's revolution derived from the widespread sense of unequal treatment and humiliation by foreign powers, and this revolutionary fervor has never been properly interred.

Great as the death toll, physical and emotional suffering of survivors, and property damage caused by the tsunami were, even greater losses could be inflicted by other disasters of low (but not negligible), or unknown, probability.

In addition to the emotional advantage that Armstrong believed that cancer gave him, his new body also made him a more effective cyclist.

The disdain felt by de Gaulle, a man of the north, for the emotional settlers across the sea had deepened.

In Britain, proposed legislation concerning incitement to religious hatred and terrorism has led to emotional parliamentary debates - and to doubts about the liberal credentials of Tony Blair's government.

Allowing preconceptions or emotional reactions to overshadow facts could make the situation much more dangerous.

But the prospects of that happening are slim, because such an appeal would lack the emotional pull of the desire to help immediate victims.

Was it purely the product of a collective delusion, an emotional Potemkin village of sorts, encouraged, if not conceived, by the authorities to restore some level of self-assurance among France's depressed citizens?

But when it comes to the soft power skills of emotional intelligence, vision, and communication, Obama outranks McCain.

Palin and Bachmann speak this highly personal or emotional language, which even the most rock-ribbed male Republican finds difficult to emulate.

The perception that Obama can transform the view that the US and the West have of themselves is an important factor in the emotional gap that may exist between Asia and Europe on the eve of America's presidential election.

PHILADELPHIA - It is difficult to communicate medical risk to a large audience, especially when official recommendations conflict with emotional narratives.

These emotional ties, combined with the usual bureaucratic love of the status quo, are the real cause of China's failure to overhaul its North Korea policy.

In the interest of promoting Sino-American cooperation against terrorism the Chinese government has toned down the emotional content of its anti-American rhetoric.

While this argument has great emotional and political appeal, it is deeply flawed, because the United States has an insidious saving problem.

Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul's visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish-Armenian relations requires opening the two countries' closed border - the last in Europe.

The war ended with Israeli forces 70 miles from Cairo, and less than 20 miles from Damascus, their success obscured by the shock of the surprise attack, emotional over-reactions, and the difficulty of seeing clearly through the fog of war.

Though the 2008 financial crisis has passed, we remain stuck in the emotional cycle that it set in motion.

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