adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an emotional bond
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As soon as we met we felt an emotional bond.
an emotional reaction (= showing strong emotion, especially by crying )
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I was surprised by her emotional reaction to the news.
an emotional response
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When she died, the emotional response was extraordinary.
an emotional speech (= showing emotions, especially by crying )
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On retiring, she delivered an emotional farewell speech.
an emotional/psychological impact
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Their mother’s death had a huge emotional impact on the children.
emotional blackmail (= tried to make him feel guilty )
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She had already tried emotional blackmail to stop him leaving.
emotional involvement
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Weaver admitted a strong emotional involvement in her client’s case.
emotional problems
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He suffers from depression and other emotional problems.
emotional strain
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She has been suffering from considerable emotional strain.
emotional ties
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He was a loner who failed to develop emotional ties with other people.
emotional trauma
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the emotional trauma of rape
emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment
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a child starved of emotional nourishment
emotional/violent/angry outburst
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his father’s violent outbursts of temper
mental/emotional stress
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It was a time of great emotional stress for me.
nervous/emotional wreck
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The attack had left her an emotional wreck.
political/emotional/economic/religious etc turmoil
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the prospect of another week of political turmoil
psychological/emotional harm
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Depriving a child of love does irreparable emotional harm.
psychological/mental/emotional scars
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The mental scars left by the accident are still with him.
sb’s mental/emotional state
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Whenever Ben stops his medication, his mental state deteriorates.
sexual/emotional/physical maturity
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He lacks the emotional maturity to appreciate poetry.
social/economic/emotional etc deprivation
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Low birth weight is related to economic deprivation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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He was aware of an almost imperceptible withdrawing, more emotional than physical, a small delicate gesture of self-containment.
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Women are much more emotional than men.
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But the reasons are more emotional than scientific.
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Crystal still has to adjust to the collegiate game, which is more emotional and physical.
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Clearly Emilia Frere's decline was more emotional than physical, for it would respond to no remedy.
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But although women are not more emotional than men, we are individuals with individual differences in emotions as in other things.
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If the anxiety does not diminish, more emotional probing may need to take place with some one skilled in this area.
very
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They felt very emotional about each other, he said.
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He became very emotional , started crying and kept putting his hands together in that way of his.
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Every session is different - some sessions race by, others drag, some are quite businesslike, others get very emotional .
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People get very emotional over the issues involved and discussion may tend to become polarised.
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It was a very emotional experience.
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They say its their heritage and they're very emotional about it.
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Naturally this is a very emotional moment, but we try to remain calm.
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He felt very emotional , caught up in his own acting and awareness of the speech's significance from the night before.
■ NOUN
abuse
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The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse , she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
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In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse .
appeal
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His sister Julie Seddon, 28, of Skelmersdale, made an emotional appeal for him to give himself up.
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That emotional appeal is not necessarily bad, although it obviously becomes so when put to evil use.
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Later Jonathan Probyn made an emotional appeal for his estranged wife to contact him or her family.
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Who is intellectual, who is motivated by logic, by emotional appeal ?
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In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes, vulgarity, rudeness, emotional appeals , a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten.
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Macmillan made a long and politically emotional appeal for Skybolt's replacement by Polaris.
attachment
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There are still strong emotional attachments to these outposts, which are spread out over the valley.
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The emotional attachment for audiences is the relationship between Flynt and Althea, and she is absolutely instrumental at that.
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It is a perfect pairing of emotional attachment and learning.
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Do people search for emotional attachments when they migrate to cities?
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In 1984, only 59 percent were looking for an emotional attachment .
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In particular, emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments.
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Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her - in fact quite the opposite!
blackmail
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There is emotional blackmail over custody of the daughter.
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No, he used some pretty outrageous emotional blackmail on me.
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Some people even resort to emotional blackmail and games, which can end in making everyone unhappy.
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This cleans the slate making it less likely that you will feel guilty or succumb to any future pressure or emotional blackmail .
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Be especially wary of using emotional blackmail .
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All the rest is emotional blackmail .
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It's not emotional blackmail - but once or twice recently, I've felt that I've nearly bought it.
charge
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The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways.
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A large emotional charge may also inhibit repeater technique.
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The purpose and persistency of the aberree was hindered in ratio to the amount of emotional charge within his engram bank.
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The emotional charge of a deja vu was absent.
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There is material before it and emotional charge after it which make it unwieldy.
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There is emotional charge here somewhere which will discharge.
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Nevertheless, it has emotional charge and therapy is slowed by that charge.
content
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The music of the words is there to be used - but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content .
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This film was original, surprising, oddly real in its emotional content , oddly compelling in its naturalness.
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You need to be in touch with the emotional content of the relationship.
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In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
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The right temporal lobe is particularly interested in the emotional content of the facial expression.
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Some central features of narrative construction were studied, including the gradual embellishment of stories and their emotional content .
development
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He has no family support for emotional development .
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Once again, this progress could be seen as a step up the ladder of emotional development .
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It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.
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This lack of communication makes it hard for them to reach the milestones described earlier and to achieve healthy emotional development .
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We depend upon emotionally-packed images, formed in childhood or reinforced in times of crisis during our emotional development .
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D., was willing to discuss the general characteristics of emotional development .
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Their emotional development was not understood as it is today.
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By the end of my initial meetings with Robbie, I summed up for myself his emotional development .
distress
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In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress .
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Simply ... understanding mental illness Everyone experiences emotional distress .
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If they are overeating as a result of emotional distress , there are cures.
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Furthermore, in 1975 an executive who suffered emotional distress after being demoted was awarded £500 compensation.
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Cameron did not satisfy the state law requirements to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress .
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Whether you are experiencing physical pain, mental anguish or emotional distress , you will feel it deeply at the time.
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As you can imagine, this causes us a great deal of humiliation and emotional distress .
disturbance
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In other children the soiling indicates a marked level of emotional disturbance .
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Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance .
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No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor health, family disruption, emotional disturbances and death could follow.
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Parents of other children who had had polio told them to expect this emotional disturbance to last as long as six months.
energy
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Keeping a steady blaze is akin to the way in which women generate and maintain emotional energy .
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Other parents feel drained, with little emotional energy to devote to smiling and cooing at a seemingly uninterested child.
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Her husband died about five years ago and she's put all her emotional energy into her job.
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Parents who successfully draw their child out are the ones who generate a lot of emotional energy .
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Nevertheless, by far the greater part of the emotional energy and imagination of five hundred people was rooted in the Dersingham family.
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How much time and emotional energy did team members lose to bracing for surprise attacks from their leader?
experience
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It was without end or beginning, paling all emotional experiences into insignificance.
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These ideas from psychotherapy help our background understanding of emotional experiences in the later part of the life-cycle.
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After using the relaxation exercise you then conjure up a positive emotional experience .
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It was a very emotional experience .
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I think the sharing and the emotional experiences are part of the miracle of Lourdes.
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So performing live in the Land of Song for the first time was an emotional experience for Kylie and her relatives.
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The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate, although interlinked, parts of the brain.
impact
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He felt that everything was somehow vague and meaningless; nothing had sharp emotional impact .
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They had a terrible emotional impact on the children...
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But the emotional impact of drastic life changes can never be wholly sorted out in advance.
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Sometimes the words themselves mean little, but the emotional impact they convey goes deeper than the intellect.
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I guess that had a lot of emotional impact on me.
intensity
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The physicality of sport, its speed and grace, along with the emotional intensity of victory and defeat are supremely visual.
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In these novels of great emotional intensity , sensibility and sentimentality lead to virtue.
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Her emotional intensity is experienced by the other characters as a tyranny from which they must escape if they are to survive.
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Others are alarmed by too much emotional intensity .
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An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity .
involvement
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There was never any emotional involvement , just a physical act that offered him some release.
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How can we reconcile the low frequency of expressions of emotional involvement in election campaigns with the high frequency of antagonistic partisanship?
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According to Tormey's theory of Expression, emotional involvement for the actor is minimal.
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The same applies to the impression of emotional involvement .
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Second, for the fieldworker such studies are extremely demanding in tact, energy, persistence, time and emotional involvement .
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As the coffin slides into the furnace, we try to restrict our emotional involvement - sometimes at considerable psychological cost.
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It shows her growing emotional involvement and gradually seems to affect her every movement.
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This implies that people at work operate as robots, devoid of emotional involvement with one another.
issue
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Physician-assisted suicide, one of the most emotional issues this term, will be argued before the high court in January.
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And abortion is a very volatile, emotional issue .
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Rough, because of the emotional issues of separation and abandonment and being uprooted.
life
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The Lower Emotional Centre is where we function daily in our emotional life .
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His emotional life had been neither happy nor successful.
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It is said that they fill our emotional life and that we are their constant prey.
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These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life .
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Though Janir and I were close, we rarely discussed our emotional lives .
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Their characters do not seem to lead full, emotional lives .
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And yet his emotional life remains a mystery to him.
maturity
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Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient's expense.
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Some teachers and most students have limited intellectual and emotional maturity ....
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Believe me, intellectual age has little to do with emotional maturity .
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They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem, poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer.
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This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry.
need
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Many meetings help individuals and groups to overcome their particular problems or fulfil an emotional need .
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They may fulfill their emotional needs with their children instead of finding their own fulfillment.
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Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.
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We tend to think of a highly emotional child as being inattentive, driven by her emotional needs of the moment.
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Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself.
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He was lonely and possessed by bottomless emotional needs .
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Both were unfitted to meet the spiritual and emotional needs of the masses.
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We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time.
outburst
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One sometimes thinks of Franck here, but Fauré characteristically reins in his emotional outbursts before they become too vigorous.
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The emotional outburst was as far as he would go, however.
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I've never had an emotional outburst till now.
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Not a Cal Ripken pent-up emotional outburst kind of ovation, mind you, but a nice little round of applause.
pain
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The fact that it doesn't cause you immense emotional pain doesn't mean you're not committed to it.
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If you are overweight, then you know what it means to be in emotional pain .
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These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel, presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain .
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Horton seemed to be in extraordinary emotional pain .
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We have this remarkable gift of tears, which will in time ease both our physical and emotional pain .
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Like this woman's brother, there were many who found the displacement and emotional pain overpowering.
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It may be that her devoted young readers need respite from emotional pain .
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Acute emotional pain is a powerful threat.
power
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If the outcome of this sombre, lovingly detailed film is unsurprising, its emotional power is undeniable.
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And it relies on the emotional power of color.
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Dionysiac music - music proper - introduced the emotional power of tone, melody and harmony.
problem
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But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems .
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The sixth and oldest, a 9-year-old boy, currently is in specialized foster care because of emotional problems .
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The emotional problems associated with a possible conflict of interest may need to be recognised.
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After all, there is so much talk about emotional problems and abnormality that many people wonder if they need help.
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He or she may have emotional problems that result in occasional deliberate binges but that is not necessarily alcoholism.
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The organization has a less productive worker and the employee gets to wrestle with a series of physical and emotional problems .
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But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems .
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Those with extensive past histories suggesting emotional problems also tended to have longer courses.
reaction
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An emotional reaction is what the caller wants.
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I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.
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He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed.
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They go through similar identifiable stages of emotional reactions .
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Selection will be based on our priorities, on explicit criteria and fundamentally on our emotional reactions .
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What is wanted is an immediate, largely emotional reaction .
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Firstly, children should be able to establish reasons why there are individual differences in personality traits and emotional reactions .
response
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One question in the survey concerned the emotional responses of people to the mentally handicapped.
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Organizational fears are emotional responses to core beliefs.
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But the androids have developed their own emotional responses and therefore they suffer as the humans do.
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Mood disorders such as mania and depression involve inappropriate emotional responses .
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Depending upon this determination, we develop appropriate emotional responses .
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Irony is used here to mock an emotional response , identified as always female, always stupid.
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In Cognitive-Behaviour terms these parents' emotional responses would differ because their appraisals of the situation differ.
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A second criticism is that the theory assumes that all emotional response is the same.
side
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This was a fine piece of filmmaking - uncompromising and direct, with no overplay on the emotional side .
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Mr Andrew, with more experience and objectivity, was able to cope with the emotional side more easily.
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Instead we have quite enthusiastically lapsed into a chronic dualism where the whole emotional side of the human psyche has been suppressed.
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In Chapter 5 we will look at the stresses and emotional side of the journey.
state
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I can sense your emotional state .
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You may also notice that your child likes to maintain a fairly low-key emotional state .
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It was certainly not a highly emotional state , nor was it an abandonment of old modes of perception.
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Liquid Valium Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state that differs from related states such as fear, aggression, and confusion.
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This has considerable significance for the communication of emotional states and personal interaction.
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In other words, meaning is a highly important component element in the labelling of emotional states .
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It must be virtually impossible for a dolphin to hide its inner emotional state .
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Throughout they have to be aware of each player's emotional state .
stress
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Be prepared to reconsider the likelihood of emotional stresses and strains.
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Hemifacial spasm is not psychogenic as was commonly thought in the past, although it may be aggravated by emotional stress .
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A person who is mentally ill has a temporary ailment, a condition brought about by emotional stress .
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Also the emotional stress placed on families with special-needs children can bring on abuse or neglect.
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Not surprisingly, most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect, notably that of emotional stress .
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Drugs, hormones, food, distension, and emotional stress elicit exaggerated motor responses.
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It all caused me severe emotional stress and a career setback.
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It is this subjective evaluation that determines whether retirement results in personal satisfaction or emotional stress .
support
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It's an emotional support from my boyfriend, sister, father.
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In certain situations, the continuous emotional support may have a deeper therapeutic effect.
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In addition to medical prescription, victims require emotional support and reassurance which is not available from sources such as the family.
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Finally, the managers received critical emotional support from peers.
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In most training schools little or no individual emotional support is available.
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While separating these activities analytically from other major processes, like emotional support , it does this for justifiable theoretical reasons.
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Volunteers need greater counselling skills and better personal emotional support than ever before.
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We believe emotional support is an essential ingredient for every laboring woman.
trauma
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Considering the possibility of emotional trauma resulting from such a programme is crucial.
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No one was killed or even harmed, except for the emotional trauma caused by the exaggerated reports of peril.
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Interestingly, only one of the nine families with an affected child had an above average level of emotional trauma .
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The emotional trauma caused her to be briefly hospitalized.
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So your Higher Self lovingly sends you an emotional trauma , in the hope that this might release the blocked-up emotions.
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For all her bravery and determination, she is not over the emotional trauma of being raped.
turmoil
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He was beginning to feel as if he had just switched roller-coasters - from one set of emotional turmoil to another.
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In addition to their own emotional turmoil , parents must cope with the demands and expectations of those around them.
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It did not suit her now to observe the emotional turmoil inside Rose.
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All of these issues can be a source of great emotional turmoil to many people.
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These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing.
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So Mimi walked out, and suddenly he faced a kind of emotional turmoil he had never before experienced.
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It is believed to contain explosive scenes - including Di's alleged suicide bids, emotional turmoil and friendships with other men.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
emotional cripple
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Losing my family left me an emotional cripple .
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But Howard's performance also suggests that Higgins is an emotional cripple .
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Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ann suffered from a number of emotional disturbances.
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Grandpa gets very emotional when he talks about the war.
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He's an emotional guy.
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In an emotional outburst, Shahidi told reporters she now had no life worth living.
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It was an emotional game for all of us.
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Most couples remember the arrival of their first baby as a highly emotional time.
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Newspaper reporters were there to record the emotional reunion between the woman and her children.
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The busing plan got an emotional response from the community.
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The council's vote came after nearly six hours of emotional debate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An attractive hypothesis is that the activity of this region in man and monkey is related to emotional speech, especially expletives.
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Crystal still has to adjust to the collegiate game, which is more emotional and physical.
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Leaving children behind may put an emotional strain on the family.
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Of course, what this ignores are the often huge emotional sacrifices that the individual who becomes a tax exile must make.
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Rather, their thinking denotes a permanent shift in both the emotional and intellectual temper of the age.
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Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional , financial and legal issues.
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The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.
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We have the freedom to be open about our feelings that comes with an emotional crisis.