Sentences with phrase «by appealing to our emotions»

Not by presenting us with more evidence, but by appeals to our emotions and / or our fears: Either by using, «Our almighty, all - knowing god will protect you and give you eternal life (security and hope)», or, «Our righteous, just, and holy god will torture you for all eternity if you DO N'T make the jump (using blind faith).»

Public support is best fired up by appeal to the emotions of deadly combat, over which the amygdala — a center for primary emotion in the brain — is grandmaster.

But my boss did all he could to bypass this democracy of the die by appealing to the emotions of the players and lobbying for sympathy and support.

Don't expect to get a higher credit limit by appealing to emotion, or telling the banker that you just suffered a major financial loss or that your spouse has a penchant for retail therapy.

Aristotle, however, defended rhetoric, arguing that a rhetorician attempts to persuade not only by appeals to the emotions (pathos), but also by appeals to logic (logos) and by demonstrating an ethical character (ethos).

Not exact matches

This is why you want to appeal to your prospect's emotions, which are determined by the brain's limbic system, not the logical, fact - finding cortex as many people believe.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

This campaign was won by slogans: «Make gra (Irish «love») the law,» «Discrimination damages lives,» etc., and the stories mentioned at the beginning of this article were strong appeals to emotion based on the desires of one's gay son / daughter / brother / sister / cousin / connection for normalization and acceptance.

Instruction was provided by a Father Trollope, a former actor whose «careful avoidance of the slightest emotion or sentiment» appealed to Greene, as did the thorough and businesslike quality of the church's formidable rules.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Science appeals to our rational brain, but our beliefs are motivated largely by emotion, and the biggest motivation is remaining tight with our peers.

Yes, he made money by going to school, working hard, and working smart — by understanding systems, as opposed to writing biased and sorry appeals to emotion.

Tata wants to inject emotion into its range and appeal to driving enthusiasts, and by the look of things, the Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP could be the vehicles for the job.

Segment 1: The article, «Why Politics and Investing Don't Mix,» by Mike Piper, in which Piper alerts readers to how security sales people and other financial sales organizations appeal to the emotions of both the right - and left - leaning views in order to convince them to invest in inappropriate products.

They already knew how their readers felt, and by appealing to these easily available emotions they could relate and be shared.

Most of this work is juvenile, but the best of it exploits teenage angst to convey something of the wincing discomfort of unadulterated emotion and the appeal of nonconformism before it is thwarted by real - world experience and cliché — a metaphor for art - making.

Of course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretation.

He simply wants to advance his agenda by appealing to people's emotions and fears.

Wikipedia says: By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (e.g. appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority).

Appeals to emotion arise when a person «instead of presenting evidence for a conclusion, attempts to win approval for it by playing upon the feelings of those to whom the argument is addressed.»

The complexity of the law would challenge an appeal court comprising Daniel, Solomon and Portia: it is far too complicated for parents to understand, especially when their better judgment is overwhelmed by «fight or flight» emotions.

The US Justice Department may have tried to hit below the belt and appeal to emotion rather than reason by painting a gruesome future.

The idea was to focus on the experience related to a product being sold rather than just the object itself, by appealing to the buyer's senses and emotions.

The problem with ORE is simply this; ORE appeals to the average human's propensity toward fulfilling the lust - for - riches syndrome by way of him / her learning to manipulate similarly uneducated others» emotions in pursuit of psychologically directing same toward a final conclusion... a nice payday... for themselves.

... Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.

We need to appeal to potential buyers» emotions by providing an environment that feels welcoming... like «home».