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Independent evaluators rated the stories on a scale of creativity widely used in psychology studies, taking into account the narrative’s originality, humor, and emotiveness.

From Science Magazine • May 15, 2023

Frank emotiveness and sensitivity become culturally sanctioned again, emo comes back and we enter a supposedly more feminine cycle.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2017

Harmonium and strings shepherd Seven Hundred Birds into beautifully fragile and exquisitely precise spaces, marrying the raw intensity of Low with the melodic emotiveness of Sigur Rós.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2012

Powerful critics like Clement Greenberg branded realism as passé and even reactionary; Andy Warhol's gang approved of figuration, but not of emotiveness.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2011

The more exquisite quality of Deronda's nature—that keenly perceptive sympathetic emotiveness which ran along with his speculative tendency—was never more thoroughly tested.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George