Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose conduct, thought, or rhetoric is governed by emotion rather than reason, often as a matter of policy.
- noun An excessively emotional person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is easily overcome by emotions; a person subject to or controlled by emotion.
- noun One who endeavors to excite emotional feeling; one who appeals to the emotions rather than to the reason or conscience.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone whose
thoughts andactions are governed by theiremotions rather than bylogic - noun Someone who is abnormally
emotional
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Examples
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People assume that because Stephen Harper attends an Evangelical church The East Gate Alliance Church he's some kind of emotionalist "holy roller" along the lines of Benny Hinn.
Stephen Harper and his Faith Suzanne 2006
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We the good and virtuous people of this land have to retain our balance in a tidal flood of emotionalist hypocracy.
Archive 2007-09-02 Newmania 2007
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We the good and virtuous people of this land have to retain our balance in a tidal flood of emotionalist hypocracy.
Sense and Sensibility Newmania 2007
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Unfortunately, the hokey FairTax is predicated on some unrealistic political assumptions that are ignored for the sake of emotionalist feel-good propaganda by the promoters.
What Would an Independent I.R.S. Look Like? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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We the good and virtuous people of this land have to retain our balance in a tidal flood of emotionalist hypocracy.
Archive 2007-09-01 Newmania 2007
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Melanie, you can put forward logical and intelligent analysis and arguments until you are blue in the face, it isn't going to change the world-view of a died-in-the-wool emotionalist; there is simply no meeting of minds.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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You know, the same markets that kept coal miners on starvation wages until they died of black lung in North America before they were unionized and the evil well-meaning emotionalist do-gooders managed to get things like child-labor and workplace-safety laws passed.
Archive 2008-07-01 Alison 2008
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I am therefore deeply saddened by your emotionalist appeal that plays on well-known and deeply seated stereotypes: the poor, innocent immigrant, being ravaged and taken advantage of by the smooth-talking, "everyone-knows-he-is-a-farce" man in power.
Who Is the Victim, Who Is the Perp in Subprime Mortgage Default? 2007
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The guest host series in particularly is a vile emotionalist attack on individual’s motives that the authors can’t possibly have any knowledge of.
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Mr. NAT ADDERLEY Jr. (Music Director): My absolute favorite songs of his tend to be the real, real deep emotionalist, the ones that I hear for the first time and I'm home crying because I know, ` Oh, my goodness, that really came from Luther.
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