Sentence examples for emotional calculus from inspiring English sources
In one or two Mr. Trevor's intricate emotional calculus (he left arithmetic behind long since, and after that, algebra) leaches the emotion.
I held the surgeon on the phone as long as I could, as the emotional calculus took hold that this would be my last connection with my patient.
Back in Phoenicia, Ann Davies and Jan Ryan are in a somewhat similar position, though theirs is a more emotional calculus.
But an emotional calculus was at work: Guillemette was losing sleep worrying about the dispute, fighting back would make us feel better, and lawyers don't charge all that much more than therapists.
(An emotional calculus was figured into the placement of the names, with "proximities" created for colleagues, plane passengers, families, and people who just happened to die within arms' reach of each other; Nick Paumgarten wrote a story describing how it worked, with a video showing one of the more moving sets of color-coded cards one can imagine).
Still, the latest developments in the Louima case contribute to an emotional and almost inevitable calculus that adds up to a disturbing sum for many black residents.
"Technology brings these hostages as identifiable victims to the whole world, so it changes the emotional balance, but it doesn't ultimately change the moral calculus," he said.
What Mr. Sherman devised, on three spreadsheets, is a cold calculus reflecting the administrative order needed by a city in emotional confusion.
