Sentence examples for emotional compass from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes we fail our own moral compass, our own emotional compass," Greg told me.

The needle-like spire of Glinton church was magnetic north on Clare's emotional compass.

But if they are unable to assert themselves early, the Giants will allow the Vikings to regain their emotional compass at home, where they are most dangerous.

Ms. Headey said Mr. Moland had given his actors the freedom she so covets, but he also provided them with an emotional compass to the plot.

Smokey Robinson's fabulous You Really Got a Hold On Me has its emotional compass shifted from melancholy to torment, with electrifying results.

"Once Around" is genial, but it lacks the kind of emotional compass that ordinarily indicates to an audience where things stand.

The emotional compasses of many of the women have been permanently disoriented by the knowledge that they were unwittingly drawn to undercover spies.

(It is assumed that the leaders of Enron, Tyco and the like threw away their emotional compasses before they ever came close to a boss's chair).

While "war life" and "civilian life" could not be farther apart on the spectrum, our internal emotional and psychological compasses are the same.

He has a knack of upping a film's emotional ante: Garfield brought the heart and moral compass to David Fincher's The Social Network (2010), playing Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin (a role that won him a Golden Globe nomination).

Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.