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Example sentences for "sensationalism"

Lexicographically close words:
senoritas; senors; sens; sensation; sensational; sensationalist; sensationalistic; sensationally; sensations; sense
  1. Sensationalism is highly unfitted for this constructive task.

  2. Sensationalism was an extremely handy weapon with which to combat doctrines and opinions resting wholly upon tradition and authority.

  3. But the emphasis upon sensationalism also operated to influence the way in which natural objects were employed, and to prevent full good being got from them.

  4. Then together we will provide a little sensationalism for the Farfalla, the Tribuna, the Secolo, and one or two other journals who will only be too ready to see a change of Ministry.

  5. It is time to go beyond sensationalism and ensure an effective, responsible, and responsive intelligence capability.

  6. The result is equally unfortunate, whether due to hairsplitting technicalities in the interpretation of law by judges, to sentimentality and class consciousness on the part of juries, or to hysteria and sensationalism in the daily press.

  7. And I tell you, Miss Van Arsdale, all this froth and noise and sensationalism doesn't matter.

  8. Maximum of sensationalism was the invariable test.

  9. And always he sought the utmost of sensationalism in caption and in type, employing italics, capitals, and even heavy-face letters with an effect of detonation.

  10. Sensationalism of other kinds was spurred to keep pace with the sex appeal.

  11. In poetry and diction they are almost worthy at times to rank with Shakespeare's plays; otherwise, in their sensationalism and unnaturalness they do violence to the moral sense and are repulsive to the modern reader.

  12. But where sensationalism is manifested by a distortion of facts, a falsification of history, or a violation of the principles of human nature, its effect is demoralizing both to the artist and the spectator, the author and the reader.

  13. Sensationalism in art, as in literature, no doubt has its uses.

  14. Sensationalism and want of reticence will in the end cure themselves, but triviality is a defect which grows by what it feeds on.

  15. Nobody can have anything to do with a newspaper without being amazed at the strangeness, the oddity, the topsy-turvy sensationalism of life, when once it is laid bare by the newspaper reporters.

  16. Green probably works still too strongly here for his anti-sensationalism to be outgrown quickly.

  17. Were there no permanent objects of conception for our sensations to be 'referred to,' there would be no significant names, but only noises, and a consistent sensationalism must be speechless.

  18. It was the dream of Kant as of Mill to replace the logics of sensationalism and rationalism with a "logic of things" and of "truth.

  19. In the sensationalism which sprang from Hume (and which was left unquestioned by Kant as far as any strictly empirical element was concerned) the implicit particularism was made explicit.

  20. Its sensationalism is personally repellent to me.

  21. Indeed, sensationalism is preferable to the deadly monotony of the writer who is wont to clothe his ideas in the ready-made garments of conventional phrases; for sensationalism has at least the merit of vividness.

  22. The models, French and Spanish, which writers in England found profit in imitating, racked sensationalism to the utmost degree by stories of horrible and perverted lust.

  23. It may be worth while, however, to point out that exactly the same correlative and mutually implicating connection exists between sensationalism and rationalism, considered as philosophical accounts of the origin and nature of knowledge.

  24. Mill of Opzoomer Liebmann on See also Experience, Sensationalism Encyclopedists, the Engel, J.

  25. Besides Hume and Spinoza, the sensationalism of Bonnet and the criticism of Kant had made the most lasting impression on Jacobi.

  26. The Untruth of Sensationalism and Materialism, 1853.

  27. Against the sensationalism of Condillac as continued by Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy (see above, pp.

  28. And he was as strongly repelled by Dostoevsky's shrieking Pan-Slavism as by his sensationalism among horrors.

  29. Even when he troubles about the soul--and he constantly troubles about it--he never seems to be able altogether to escape out of what may be called the higher sensationalism into genuine mysticism.

  30. Sensationalism seized upon both people and artists; a sensationalism tinged with Roman vulgarity.

  31. Softness and sensationalism were equally avoided by Pheidias and his school.

  32. The American press grows flippant and unreliable nowadays, Mr. Churchill, but the waves of sensationalism wash in vain around the solid base of the old Monitor.

  33. Without undue sensationalism it may be said that this is an age of doubt.

  34. A rising cosmopolitanism perhaps has undone the first, sensationalism [p.

  35. As a rule I dislike these interviews, for I know that my employers very strongly object to any more sensationalism than is absolutely necessary being imported into the accounts of executions.

  36. Unfortunately, with many of the papers, sensationalism is the one thing needful, and when I meet with a really energetic reporter attached to such a paper my position is a very difficult one.

  37. Historically, sensationalism had been displaced by idealism, and the idea that reality is a construct of ideas held together by logical relations was given up long before functionalism arrived on the scene.

  38. Notwithstanding the ultra sensationalism in some of Liszt's works there is no doubt that, in the closing pages of Faust, he has produced an effect of genuine power and of inspired musical beauty.

  39. In fact, the orchestration throughout is of such convincing power that it refutes any charge of sensationalism or mere bombast.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensationalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affectation; amplification; atomism; ballyhoo; burlesque; caricature; convolution; dash; dazzle; dilation; dramatics; emotionalism; enhancement; enlargement; excess; exorbitance; expansion; extravagance; extravaganza; extreme; flatulence; gaiety; gaudiness; glare; glitter; grandiloquence; heightening; huckstering; hyperbole; inflation; loudness; magnification; melodrama; ostentation; overemphasis; panache; philosophy; pomposity; pretension; prodigality; rhetoric; sensationalism; spiel; stretching; superlative; theatrical; travesty