Sentences with phrase «emotional buttons»

That seems like a big concern given the movie's attempt to push emotional buttons.

We can press someone's emotional buttons anytime we want.

Even so, it's a movie that is focused on pushing a few emotional buttons, and looking at the movie from that perspective, there's some success here.

Does this mean that every game needs to push the same emotional buttons?

Taking a distinctly right - wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the... Read More»

Having read what he has to say has convinced me he's not a voice of reason, but of advocacy, his arguments aimed at the ignorant not the knowledgeable, his method of persuasion based on political partisanship and pressing emotional buttons, not science.

All the better to appreciate the film's raison d'etre: primal emotional button - pushing, stabbing at the most basic desires to punish the unrighteous.

Like Fred Zinnemann's 1948 Czech - lensed post-war classic The Search, 1945 is a reckoning with the evil and horrors of the Holocaust that pushes emotional buttons with a far more oblique approach.

In an age where pressing the most emotional button you can find as a means of defence is somehow acceptable, the Games Developer Conference later this month has listed this event.

The core problem, I believe, is the interaction between our penchant for biased reasoning on the one hand, the deeply polarized political climate (which pushes emotional buttons rather than encouraging calm deliberation), and the rich misinformation environment (there's a ready - made argument in defense of anything and everything).

That data was then given to a firm called Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that counted Donald Trump's presidential campaign among its clients, which used the information to understand what would hit emotional buttons during the 2016 presidential election.

The same dynamic formulation can be applied to discipline, with the micro situation being a child behavior that one wants to either elicit or stop, the cognitive process being the parentà cents â «¬ â «cents s judgment about what is going on (e.g. whether there is a problem or not), the affective process being whatever emotional buttons the child or situation manage to push, and the physical process being such things as whether the parent is feeling generally stressed or exhausted.

She's aware that winning support is often less about what she says and more about how she says it: meaningless soundbites like her call for «red, white and blue Brexit» can still be potent if they push the right emotional buttons.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

I had accidently pressed an emotional button in Bill earlier that day, and so for next 2 hours he poured out his tragic story.

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons.

That can be tough to do, however, because a good politician knows exactly how to push our emotional buttons, says Leslie Shore, a communications expert who teaches effective listening at St. Mary's University of Minnesota: «Word choice can be very specifically used to induce a response in the listener.»

The piano - based score by Herbert Grönemeyer further pushes the emotional buttons; the occasionally dissonant, uncomforting soundtrack adds to the sense of story's uneasiness.

... Realive will push the emotional buttons on the ethical conundrums that will greet the newly reborn, adrift in a world different from the one they left behind decades earlier.

It might lack the grit of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy or the wit of Ant - Man, but 2012's The Amazing Spider - Man is a comic - book romp that knows how to push all the right emotional buttons.

To give that easy criticism is to discount what Darabont and his crew have accomplished, which is craft a heartfelt fable that pushes all the right emotional buttons.

Michael McKean — whose performance as Jimmy's afflicted, maddeningly holier - than - thou sibling Chuck in «Better Call Saul» pushed all the emotional buttons — wasn't nominated for supporting actor - drama.

Certainly that background has some sway here, and it might account for the fact that the movie, which has plenty of opportunities to push those emotional buttons hard, doesn't feel as manipulative as it could be.

«Our selection as this year's Luxury SUV Best Buy, the 2017 Mercedes - Benz GLC embodies many of the attributes that shoppers seek from these go - anywhere, do - anything wonders and pushes both the practical and emotional buttons that can justify the GLC's place in your garage.»

-- Minneapolis Star Tribune «Playful yet affecting... If you miss the Jeeves novels of P. G. Wodehouse — and don't mind having your emotional buttons pushed — Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is the book for you.»

The fraudster's knowledge of the right emotional buttons to push and ways to extract informative personal details is purposeful and patient.

Debt collectors and others know how to push your emotional buttons in order to have their way with you.

Montalbano lamented the «emotional button - pushing» he said several speakers employed.

Our maladaptive schema modes are triggered by life situations that we are oversensitive to (our «emotional buttons»).

For Peter to communicate well, he needs to understand that talking to Mary about her relationship with her mother is something that pushes an emotional button, and may trigger Mary being upset and defensive.

Pushing a parent's emotional buttons can be entertaining and gives the child a sense of power and control.

Often our schema modes are triggered by life situations that we are oversensitive to (our «emotional buttons»).