Sentences with phrase «emotional excess»
"Emotional excess" refers to an overwhelming or intense display of emotions. It means experiencing feelings or reactions that are exaggerated, extreme, or beyond what is considered normal or expected. Full definition
Lincoln rejected this Calvinist view later in life and shunned emotional excess, but the Calvinism of his youth left him with a sense of fatalism that endured throughout his life.
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Ironically, these two men are often caricatured as promoting a religion of wild emotional excess, when in fact they took pains to insist that a life of love and joy does not rule out reasoned reflection or active social involvement.
When Minimalism came to the fore in the 1960s, it was seen by its adherents as a logical reaction to what were then perceived as the sensationally emotional excesses that had become the hallmark of the Abstract Expressionist artists in the postwar period.
You know, Barnett Newman used to stand in front of his stripes and say, «I want emotional excess».
The main problems at Corinth were not those of Jew - Gentile relations, but those likely to arise in any big worldly city — sexual looseness, emotional excesses, church factions and quarrels extending even to a serious attack on Paul's own leadership.
Here, as elsewhere in Lewton's oeuvre, belief in the supernatural is used mainly to evoke, contain, or account for a certain kind of emotional excess.
Instead, there is an unfocused whirlpool of emotional excess that is created in all of this zaniness that only occasionally hits the right notes, building to a conclusion that's too ephemeral to be even vaguely agreeable.
Conscious of the nineteenth - century German tradition of romantic landscape painting, Hütte depends upon compositional and structural devices, whilst refuting its tradition of emotional excess and self - conscious pathos.
A reaction against the emotional excesses of Abstract Expressionism, the movement offered a Californian counterpart to geometric work by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and the New York Color Field painters; it later included other California painters like Helen Lundeberg and June Harwood.
Partly a reaction to the emotional excess of Abstract Expressionism, it grew into an enormously influential aesthetic force that continues to reverberate.