emphatically

emphatic | American Dictionary

emphatic
adjective
us/emˈfæt̬·ɪk/
strong and determined in speech or action, so that what is said or done gets attention:
Godard is emphatic about his preference.

emphatically

adverbus/emˈfæt̬·ɪk·li/
He emphatically denied the rumors.

Examples of emphatic

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Towards the end of the eighteenth century, people began to see revolutions as emphatic disruptions of the past, as new points in a line.
For contrast, a minority of the motives are treated in block chords, being preceded by an emphatic cadence in all voices simultaneously.
All negative and interrogative constructions, emphatic clauses, and imperatives were excluded, as well.
It fostered reflection in the audience and avoided ' ' the emphatic flood which a realistic portrayal of the same tale and character might unloose.
Reviews 281 voiced interdental fricative and the voiced emphatic dental stop have merged as a pharyngealised dental-alveolar stop.
This kind of construction is again emphatic in nature and it is mainly used as a request for locative information missed from a previous utterance.
Similarly, the achievement index shows the more developed a society is, the less emphatic the achievement orientation of its population.
She was emphatic that none of the four did anything for her, but instead ' had the cheek' to come to her for money.
The production itself eschewed emphatic gesture for a subtle stagecraft.
For example, a subject noun phrase or pronoun may be "echoed" by a clitic, without emphatic or contrastive effect.
Again, the negative example (here in an emphatic, sublime way) is used to educate the listener's patriotic sensibilities.
The negative attitude is therefore closely related to the proposition expressed, reinforced by the emphatic demand conveyed by the prosody.
In the final analysis, these emphatic instances were included with cases of ordinary rhythm group-final stress, yielding a contrast between stressed and unstressed position.
Yet his emphatic championing of ideology over pragmatics can come to seem a rather artificial intervention.
They mention 0 0 that a number of dialects have lost the emphatic-non-emphatic contrast, but fail to explain that the dialects concerned are peripheral (275).
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