Interestingly, the WikiLeaks documents reveal CIA advice to use the plight of Afghan women as "pressure points", an emotive way to rally flagging public support for the war.
We thought there could be few better ways of achieving this, and bridging the gap of 100 years, than taking the emotive words of the war's great poets and having them read by celebrities and personalities from our modern world".
But the fractious and divisive nature of the country's politics was exposed once again, when major parties failed to close ranks even when dealing with an issue as emotive as trials of war crimes.
The accidental killing of Allied troops by their own side is described as "fratricide," an unnecessarily emotive word for a horrible mistake common to all wars.
The poems are emotional and emotive.
A powerfully emotive work in which Jacob is being supported by an angel, it stands in contrast to the iconic Rock Drill, which, with its mechanical overtones, expressed the artist's revulsion at the carnage of the first world war.
It is, of course, an emotive word.
The crusaders' Muslim contemporaries employed less emotive, more secular language: "the wars of the Franks", Both of these books take us back to the period in western history when belief in the afterlife was paramount.
The White House image makers, with all their expertise, money and sophisticated techniques, could not have choreographed a more emotive demonstration of support for America's war on terrorism than the ordinary citizens in this humble city put on today.
The article goes on with the standard emotive phrases we see in the culture wars: "racial politics", "dumbing down", "slammed by critics" – literally all just in the first sentence.
Pierre Boulez, one of the composers who wrote what is often deemed "ugly" music to rebel against the emotive works appropriated by totalitarian states in World War II, mellowed later in his career and wrote a few alluring works.
