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Example sentences for "emotions"

Lexicographically close words:
emotional; emotionalism; emotionalized; emotionally; emotionless; emotive; emou; empaled; empanelled; empathic
  1. It seemed to the one that as the door closed against that bright presence the spirit of night descended; the other sat wrapped in the chaos of conflicting emotions in which she always left him.

  2. The fact, too, that the little Josè was a child of extreme emotions must not be overlooked in an estimate of the influences which bore upon him during these trying days.

  3. Wenceslas--" The priest spoke in a strained, uncertain tone, striving to hold his emotions in leash.

  4. Throughout the night the boy, on his knees beside the little bed, wrestled with the emotions which were tearing his soul.

  5. He was feebly cognizant of emotions quite unknown; of unfamiliar sentiments, whose outlines were but just crystallizing out from the thick magma of his materialistic soul.

  6. Again it was that same weird lament which the girl had sung long before in the Elwin school to voice the emotions which surged up in her during her loneliness in the great city.

  7. From the first she had aroused within his soul a conflict of emotions such as he had never known before.

  8. A welter of conflicting emotions surged through their harassed souls.

  9. Godwin thinks that the influence of the emotions and passions has been overestimated.

  10. Punishment of death, again, excites those emotions which are inimical to social order.

  11. If the radical arouses helpful emotions the amount of good he does is incalculable, so too is the amount of harm an unwise radical is responsible for.

  12. Again, the emotions do not move as fast as the intellect.

  13. Man is influenced more by his emotions than by his intellect and hence the importance of the position which the sentimental radical holds in the history of society.

  14. Time was," she says, "when these emotions would be hidden with immeasurable solicitude from every human eye.

  15. The emotions which Shelley's poetry arouse are on the whole helpful.

  16. From custom's evil taint exempt and pure Speaking the wisdom once they could not think, Looking emotions once they feared to feel.

  17. A people who are destitute of these emotions are fit subjects for the yoke.

  18. The emotions may not adhere to the radicals' scheme, but they are at least freed from their old bondage and can embrace the reforms of the less conservative.

  19. The news of this affair roused in Shelley violent emotions of indignation and compassion.

  20. The emotions it caused were strange and indefinite.

  21. As I entered the proud portal of the ancestral palace, my emotions were so great that I could not speak.

  22. You were witness to my emotions last evening at the performance of the Miserere; when the vaulted temple resounded with the words of atonement and redemption.

  23. Her newness to the world, her delightful susceptibility to every thing beautiful and agreeable in nature, reminded me of my own emotions when first I escaped from the convent.

  24. Again I gazed at it for a livelong summer's day; but oh how different the emotions between departure and return.

  25. When those emotions prevail, the understanding is clouded, and truth is scarcely perceived.

  26. In time of war, their youthful hearts, capable of profound agony, were wrung by the intricate emotions of doubt.

  27. The tumultuous emotions of Richardson's terror destroyed that slow and careful process of thought by means of which he understood Mexican.

  28. Before he had voiced his emotions we had passed on.

  29. For me, at least, the silence was pregnant with the undefinable emotions that, at times, run in currents between man and woman.

  30. His heart fluttered with emotions of anger when he thought of the effect such a blow would have on Lottie.

  31. It is with emotions of the deepest regret that I am compelled to inform my friends that, by some means unknown to me, shrewd pickpockets and robbers have managed to get aboard of my boat.

  32. Emotions set free, as has been said, larger percentages of sugar which are immediately utilized by the muscles in heightened or fatiguing effort.

  33. Reason is not concerned with what religion is, but only with the relative position religious emotions shall occupy in life.

  34. What have been the greatest emotions of our lives?

  35. Emotions are of all sorts, and what to some is horrible is to others attractive.

  36. As his civilisation progresses his instinctive desires increase, his emotions are more numerous.

  37. In the Latins some emotions predominate, in the Teutons others, in the Hindus yet others.

  38. The instincts of the savage are few, the emotions he is capable of feeling are limited.

  39. Do you know whence came these emotions that have risen and made your faith?

  40. Which of the emotions of which Puritanism is composed could be expressed in art?

  41. What these emotions may be varies in each people according to their natures, their circumstances, their stage of civilisation.

  42. Long before these emotions had been crystallised by the Church round religious ideals, and a change would not be understood.

  43. The Mahommedan has for one of his principal emotions courage in battle, and the Hindu cleanliness of body and purity of race.

  44. Art, as Tolstoi explains, is also an expression of the emotions, and therefore the difference between religion and art lies in the emotions expressed and the method of expression.

  45. In what manner this awakens the emotions of man the following extract will show.

  46. For the emotions are so varied, so contradictory, that all cannot live together.

  47. While the marshal was arranging the combatants and their followers, Edmund approached his friend and patron; he put one knee to the ground, he embraced his knees with the strongest emotions of grief and anxiety.

  48. After they had refreshed themselves, and recovered from the emotions they had sustained on this interesting occasion, Edmund thus addressed the Baron: "On the brink of happiness I must claim your attention to a melancholy subject.

  49. I feel a variety of emotions of different kinds, and am afraid to trust my own heart with you.

  50. Edmund was walking to and fro in the hall, when he heard the horn that announced their arrival; his emotions were so great that he could hardly support them.

  51. The Lord Fitz-Owen went up to the bedside; he embraced his brother with strong emotions of concern.

  52. He was obliged to hide his face, he lifted up his clasped hands to heaven, and was in great emotions during all this part of the relation; while Lord Lovel groaned, and seemed in great agitation.

  53. They had parted with scorn on her side and anger upon his; but all trace of these emotions seemed to vanish as their hands met, and she was only aware of a confused wish that she might continue to hold fast to him.

  54. But keenest of all was the exhilaration of displaying her own beauty under a new aspect: of showing that her loveliness was no mere fixed quality, but an element shaping all emotions to fresh forms of grace.

  55. She knew that such emotions leave lines on the face as well as in the character, and she had meant to take warning by the little creases which her midnight survey had revealed.

  56. She was sure that Gerty knew Selden's feeling for her, and it had never dawned upon her blindness that Gerty's own judgment of him was coloured by emotions far more ardent than her own.

  57. These stories, under the guise of teaching some moral lesson, are frequently designed to stimulate all the emotions that could be excited by the most vicious French novel.

  58. Confessions, so called, were usually amatory episodes in the lives of the authors, highly spiced and colored by emotions often not felt at the time, but rather inspired by memory.

  59. The lad stood there with a lump in his throat and a curious mingling of emotions in his heart and head.

  60. While we are between us able to cope with most of the things that arise, you, an outsider, without having your emotions involved may see more clearly than we, aside from your undoubted talents in this direction.

  61. Three wide-eyed persons, each reflecting his emotions in his own way stared at the youth; from the youth to Jimmy.

  62. Bunyan had enjoyed holy emotions full of glory, and now the devil was threatening him, not only with the loss of heaven, but the terrors of hell.

  63. Nor have I ever witnessed this ceremony since without the strongest emotions of love, and joy, and hope.

  64. He was a musician, yet he looked out upon the visible world and inward upon the world of the emotions through the transforming eyes of the poet.

  65. The merriment is interrupted by a tender andante 3-8, in which strings and wind instruments alternate, prefiguring the amorous emotions which are to have a place in the drama.

  66. They are so entirely governed by their emotions and passions, so completely involved in the complications proceeding therefrom, that an artistic representation must depend on the depicting of these emotions in their fullest truth.

  67. The verses which are devoted to this division of the subject are given to a quartet of solo voices, as appropriate to the gentler and more individual tone of the emotions depicted.

  68. It is fortunate, from a musical point of view, that the arrangement of the parts falls in with these conditions, land that the natural course of the emotions depicted lends itself to a musical climax.

  69. The musical depicting of such emotions is a grateful task; if it is true in itself and a faithful rendering of the given situation it cannot fail of its effect.

  70. Intense and varied emotions are thrown into relief by strong contrast.

  71. The musical representation, however, could only be a true one by relying entirely on the emotions which alone are capable of being expressed in music.

  72. The music follows the course of the emotions in a continuous flow, without allowing any definite motif to predominate.

  73. The muscular element is the most conspicuous in emotion, though it is not possible, as a careful student of the emotions (H.

  74. She regards herself as very passionate, but her sexual emotions appear to have developed very slowly and have been somewhat intellectualized.

  75. I used to ask to go out of school two or three times a day, and retired to the closet, where I practised on myself most diligently, but to no purpose, at that time, though I began to have pleasurable emotions in the act.

  76. There can be no doubt that the sexual emotions of women have a profound influence in determining suicide.

  77. After she has had sexual experiences, Kisch maintains, a woman's sexual emotions are just as powerful as a man's, though she has more motives than a man for controlling them.

  78. The whip was sometimes used in antiquity, but if it aroused sexual emotions they seem to have passed unregarded.

  79. Emotions seem to me to be coincidents of reactions of the whole organism tending to certain results.

  80. A certain amount of passivity, a desire to have their emotions worked on, seems to me, so far as my small experience goes, very common among ordinary, presumably normal men.

  81. I mean to say, that they ought not to indulge those emotions which disturb the order of society, and engross the thoughts that should be otherwise employed.

  82. Their lively senses will ever be at work to harden their hearts, and the emotions struck out of them will continue to be vivid and transitory, unless a proper education stores their minds with knowledge.

  83. The shameless behaviour of the prostitutes who infest the streets of London, raising alternate emotions of pity and disgust, may serve to illustrate this remark.

  84. This is a rough sketch of my plan; and should I express my conviction with the energetic emotions that I feel whenever I think of the subject, the dictates of experience and reflection will be felt by some of my readers.

  85. The author has ventured to appropriate the most sacred emotions as the materials for his composition.

  86. The emotions of the mind are displayed in the movements of the body, the expression of the features and the tones of the voice.

  87. After a ride of half an hour through the shady lanes which skirted the ramparts, they reached the back entrance of the Gothic building before mentioned, and Florian entered this singular sanctuary with emotions not easily described.

  88. Young girls, even the purest, possess in a high degree the talent of concealing their feelings, and of deceiving persons with regard to the emotions they really experience.

  89. Our love to God does not depend upon the emotions of the moment.

  90. But there are Sabbaths allowed for the mind as well as the body, when the intellect is stilled, and the emotions alone perform their gentle and involuntary functions.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emotions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affection; feeling; psychology; sensibility; sentiment; sympathy