emotively

Examples of emotive

emotive
However, due to their primitive, emotive nature, autocentric responses are perceived as being more difficult to control or altogether irrelevant.
Accounts of visits to mediums were often characterized by highly emotive descriptions of meetings with spirits or messages from the other side.
Discussion of the emotive elements of stressful situations and feelings of distress may well not be appropriate within a managerial relationship.
One conclusion of this preliminary section is that marriage was ' a field of emotive ideals ' rather than a purely utilitarian institution.
He accuses them, not only of holding a cathartic theory of magic, but of also holding an emotive theory of magic.
They were generally wary of the emotive language of nationhood, emphasizing instead the importance of democratic, liberal, and civic values based on reason.
Indeed, such emotive approaches to the question of extraterrestrialism are with us still, and so is the religious unease on the question of pluralism.
Their descriptions of the experience were also less emotive and more often contained expressions of negative or mixed feelings.
The care of children with cardiac disease is especially emotive.
But the source of her emotive power remains elusive, crying out for further critical inquiry.
The overt form that is considered formal: less personal, less familiar, less warm, less friendly, less emotive.
The passage was chosen by the consultant graphologist because it contained many emotive words.
As we have seen, they are shorthand symbols serving to indicate the emotive quality attached to an utterance.
I wish to avoid this aspect of the romantic while retaining its connotations of attention to the emotive and affective dimensions of experience.
In this sense, this volume deepens our understanding of the constitutive power of emotive language.
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