Sentence examples for mass emotion from inspiring English sources

Stead realised that if he could mobilise mass emotion, he could force the government to change established policy.

Sentimental ties of empire remained strong enough for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 to provoke mass emotion.

He came to office amid an extraordinary storm of worldwide publicity, despite a certain personal "coolness" and a mistrust of mass emotion as a tool in politics.

Alfred Hitchcock told François Truffaut (in a moment that's the climax of Kent Jones's superb documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut") about his effort to "use the cinematic art to achieve something of a mass emotion".

When Alfred Hitchcock spoke to François Truffaut about his effort to "use the cinematic art to achieve something of a mass emotion," he identified a distinctive aspect of the movies that remains an elusive mystery — its connection to power.

And Dianamania bore several clear affinities to the excesses described in (for example) Norman Cohn's "The Pursuit of the Millennium": it involved mass emotion; it exalted a personage of low cultural level; it was self-flagellatory in tendency; and it was very close to violence.

Historic occasions in Europe, at least in the great states, are stage-managed with skill and the people who put them on have developed a technique of working upon mass emotions.

So maybe hope has trumped fear after all, or maybe mass emotions, like everything else, run in cycles.

It celebrated the individual rather than the masses, emotion rather than reason, nature rather than man.

By hour five, it's impossible not to find yourself doing things you never expected as you're subsumed into a 70,000-person mass of emotion.

Rove is implying that an empathic person is one who lets their subjective feelings rule and that he/she uses this seeping mass of emotion to push an agenda.