Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many people went to look at her nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of her body. Even her most rabid critics granted her genius for the...
Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that...
He wasn't the only one that showed emotion. Michaels sobbed openly when he had finished his speech, and Denham, the editor, could not speak for the tears that choked his voice. Gus felt awfully sorry for him. He had always suspected Denham of being something of a snob.
Rather than show any emotion, "Brute" Howell covered his face with his hands and staggered through the door. Sympathetic hands patted him gently on the shoulder as he p a s s e d. Howell was overwhelmed with feeling in spite of himself.
The present day is notable for a dearth of any other kind of oratory than the perniciously emotional. One has only to listen to the average political harangues, or to read the Congressional Record, to realize to what depths public speaking has sunk in America. Both our politicians, and those...