Sentence examples for emotional acts from inspiring English sources

For Scheler, there are two basic emotional acts, the act of love and the act of hate.

Between emotions and the will, there is a hierarchy comparable to that of the class of intellectual states, with the difference being however that the phenomenal basis of the class of emotional acts is nothing other than sense-feelings (pleasure and displeasure).

He added that collecting is primarily an emotional act, born more out of nostalgia than aesthetics.

That decision is not nearly as easy as dividing up money, in part because collecting is such an emotional act.

It was an emotional act of frustration by a player who all-too-neatly sums up hockey's internal conflicts and struggles.

The PBTY is not only an emotional act of gratitude to taxpayers; it's the "what are you looking at?" of corporate dignity.

When we regard singing as an instinctive and wholly emotional act, we narrow down our understanding of what it is and what singers are.

Ganassi was warm-toned and sympathetic, excelling in her emotional Act 2 duet with Yoncheva, in which she pledges to abandon Pollione.

It knocks their confidence and affects how they share themselves with their partner... Sex is an emotional act: people have to feel right, some people find it very difficult to let go, people who have been diagnosed with cancer often batten down their emotions to get through it and they have trouble trusting themselves, they don't trust their body.

The act of valuing is not an intellectual act, but an act of the "heart," i.e., an emotional act.

So if the partners who started the business don't have their emotional act together, the company itself won't be emotionally sound.