emotionalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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The casting of deaf and hearing actors — one to embody and emotionalize a character, the other to sing, speak and jam — fails to harmonize into a resonant or even intelligible interpretation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
But we anthropomorphize, assuming they emotionalize identically to us, and that’s the mistake.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 25, 2017
You've tried to emotionalize what should not be an emotional issue.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a good idea of Santayana that "the function of poetry is to emotionalize philosophy."
From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John
The poet should be free and if he wants to emotionalize a social message he should be allowed to do so, risking aesthetic value if he becomes didactic, or is false in his views.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this same emotionalized vein the concert proceeded through Russian church music and folk songs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The play is remembered as four long acts of highly emotionalized mistaken identity.
From Time Magazine Archive
More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even with animals it is only when their sensation of pleasure is in some degree emotionalized that we can endure to contemplate it with sympathy.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
“It’s all about visualizing, emotionalizing and imagining that you’re like an otter or a seal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2019
But it is Steinbeck’s best novel… It is “great” in the way that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was great — because it is inspired propaganda, half tract, half human-interest story, emotionalizing a great theme.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2015
Here is the way the dramatist, emotionalizing the description of the novel, turned it into dramatic illustration of Jean’s ignorance of the condition of the country.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
It was, though, not love that was emotionalizing her then.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar
He took his preconsidered skeleton of argument with all its careful alignment of crescendos and climaxes and clothed it with the passion of a rousing, emotionalizing speech.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus
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