emotional appeal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofemotionalandappeal
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emotional
adjective
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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appeal
noun
uk/əˈpiːl/us/əˈpiːl/
a request to the public for money, information, ...
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(Definition ofemotionalandappealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Another chorale emerges low in the strings and swells into a gloriously rich passage of immediateemotionalappeal.
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The sentiments in the text at these points (anguish and hope) take on a more delicateemotionalappealthan before.
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Yet chromolithographs, if chosen on the basis ofemotionalappealand genuine appreciation, are more easily transformed into sentimental possessions.
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But theemotionalappealof this argument overlooks the fact that "not choosing" is choosing.
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While they had a penchant for polemic, he insists on theemotionalappealof sermons which drew on their own experience of forgiveness.
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This he does with journalistic panache, but the ideas he would have us adopt are just as dependent onemotionalappealas their alternatives.
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Faced with the apparently overwhelmingemotionalappealand force of national consciousness, theorists have tended to lash out pretty wildly.
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Some commentators relied solely upon a rather diffuseemotionalappeal.
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He said, with anemotionalappealthat touched all of us, an appeal to our bygone history.
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But theemotionalappealof nationalism causes a rather parochial attitude towards federation.
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I know that during the debate anemotionalappealwill be made on behalf of the retired pensioners and those on low, fixed incomes.
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There was anemotionalappealbecause he thought of a thousand years of history.
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This appeal is the purelyemotionalappeal, as opposed to the reasoning appeal.
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I can see theemotionalappealand the symmetry of it.
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The appeal to revenge is, after all, anemotionalappeal.
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This war would not last 10 days but for the strongemotionalappealit arouses.
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It has been said that there is a danger of someemotionalappeal.
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It is very easy to make anemotionalappealwhich in turn arouses emotional opposition.
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There is no canvassing, there are no meetings and there is noemotionalappeal.
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Generosity and unselfishness will come in response to theemotionalappeal, an appeal which must touch all who have a heart.
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