Sentence examples for emotional import from inspiring English sources

The second distinction Goldie makes is between emotional import, which is a part of the external narration, and the internal emotions contained in the events narrated (p. 99).

"We treat it as though it has more emotional import".

Mr. Cohen stages the action with more concentration and intensity than anything else: his lack of pretension involves plowing through the exposition scenes with the emotional import of someone waiting for the automatic pinsetter at a bowling alley.

Then Michael Nyman's sumptuous, romantic soundtrack starts up, full of emotional import that you can't quite yet account for, but that nonetheless helps lift this quotidian scene out of glum English realism.

That philosophy, derived from pragmatism, emphasizes close study of artists' decisions and their intellectual and emotional import, in line with the book "Art as Experience," by Barnes's friend and supporter John Dewey.

The artist recognises the fact that an image in one's memory, particularly an image of emotional import, is substantially different from one derived from direct perception; at the same time he suggests that direct perception can be considerably renewed and enriched by an imaginative wonderment.

Before exploring this process at play within particular fictional works, I also want to draw out an important feature of narrative that Peter Goldie describes, namely, that different narratives of the same event carry different emotional imports.

Rorem's scores seem, by comparison, modest and naïve, but this description applies only to their surface, and not to their emotional or psychological import.

Nassar shades the literal definition with emotional and metaphoric import, writing that Dunya makes him think of "the Palestine that might exist only in the imaginations of the Palestinian Diaspora.

The emotional and surgical import of false-positive tests merit emphasis: Wilson et al (2008), in a CT screening study of 3642 persons, reported that 41% had non-calcified nodules, 95% of which were non-cancerous.

His paintings import the emotional inwardness of early religious art into a mercantile age, while anticipating the modern taste that prefers introspection to action.