Sentence examples for emotional arithmetic from inspiring English sources

His emotional arithmetic is clear-cut, elementary-school-level division.

The novel's title comes from the emotional arithmetic connecting the characters — and Casey — after that night.

This sort of diagrammatic, indeed rudimentary emotional arithmetic is also applied to Doug's nemesis and neighbor in Finden, an elderly retired schoolteacher named Charlotte Graves, who has filed a lawsuit to try to get Doug's ostentatious new McMansion torn down.

But this flat-footed, long-winded book unfortunately captures little of the extraordinary drama of his life and provides few new insights into the man himself or the complex emotional arithmetic within the Kennedy clan.

It isn't just the thud of the insultingly self-evident: "In the end, I think you either cheat or you don't," or the over-obvious emotional arithmetic: an unmarried lover shoulders the guilt more easily "because he is betraying a stranger rather than the person to whom he gave a lifelong vow".

Screening at 8 p.m. in the Main Stage Theater of the Staller Center, "Emotional Arithmetic" stars Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow as survivors of a French World War II "transit" camp who meet again decades later in the Quebec countryside; Christopher Plummer also figures into the dramatic entanglements.

In one or two Mr. Trevor's intricate emotional calculus (he left arithmetic behind long since, and after that, algebra) leaches the emotion.

So are we left with some crude felicific arithmetic: (amount of emotional pain) – (value of blasphemous speech uttered) = net morality of this or that utterance?

Yet again we have another example of how painful it can be when the cold, hard facts of arithmetic smash against the complex, emotional issues of money.

Increased blood lead level in children has been correlated with decreases in intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, short-term memory, attention, reading and arithmetic ability, fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and social engagement.

He wants to explore the arithmetic of means and ends, and to probe the emotional roots of that brand of American hubris that posits the possibility of continually remaking oneself and the world.