"emotional interest" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing an intense emotional investment or attachment to a person, object, or situation. Example: "The movie captivated the audience with its thrilling plot and complex characters, leaving them with an emotional interest in the fate of the protagonists."
Moreover, it assumes that whenever I take an emotional interest in something, I am interested in it for the sake of emotion, a false inference that would imply equally that the lover is interested only in his love or the angry person only in his anger.
I'll admit to having an emotional interest in this.
Anyone with an intense emotional interest in a subject loses the ability to observe it objectively: You selectively perceive events.
Even so, I consider any request for something that lies outside my sphere of emotional interest — "Hi.
"The Lolita syndrome" — the prurient fascination with the sexuality of young girls — "created a lot of emotional interest.
"It's obvious that the founders have an emotional interest in the company," said Mr. Phan, who teaches corporate governance.
In upper class America, you may not want to marry too early or too late, but once you've graduated college there's a broad zone where financial and emotional interests seem more likely to align than not.
In the novel "So Long, See You Tomorrow," William Maxwell writes, "Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end.
Most members of our team seem to have both left-brain (logic, reasoning) and right-brain (creative, emotional) interests, and I think Monument Valley is a result of that.
Most members of our team seem to have both left-brain (logic, reasoning) and right-brain (creative, emotional) interests, and I think Monument Valley is a result of that.
Around the same time, Emerson officials suggested it may be in her "best emotional interests" to take a semester off, Tedesco recalled.
