Emotive language refers to words or phrases that are used to stir up emotions and feelings in people. It uses powerful or passionate words to persuade or influence others.
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If politicians wanted us to think for ourselves they'd stop
using emotive language like a modern day mob on the hunt for witches.
«They are using
very emotive language and it doesn't help us have a calm conversation about assisted dying.
But on the whole seems like a personal rant and if anyone has ever taken a class in logical would know that
emotive language doesn't properly equate to straight logicalitly in an argument.
Evidently, he thinks his purpose in life is to reinforce the ideas in those books via a truckload
of emotive language.
But I use
emotive language deliberately to make my point and I make no apology for saying that my prime object is to remove first Wenger, then Kroenke from our club.
He's talked of the summit being a «turning point in our pursuit of recovery» and used
powerfully emotive language when justifying the substantial actions taken today.
The UK provides certain services to nominated candidates, paid for from the general fund of the country («taxpayer's money» if you will; I'm trying to avoid
overly emotive language).
The HFEA report had the same reason for opposing the use of fetuses, albeit in
less emotive language: «The public... may feel an instinctive repugnance to the use of ovarian tissue from these sources for research or fertility treatment.»
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I mean, this was «not a statement of fact, but rather an idea or an opinion that is incapable of being proved false... nothing more than
emotive language designed to convey disgust, disdain, and loathing — the essence of subjective opinion.»
We also have a problem with the use in the press release of
such emotive language («the threat of coercive takeover or control tactics»).
If anyone has ever taken a class in logical reasoning, would know that
emotive language doesn't properly equate to straight logicalitly in an argument.
To say there was stereotyping going on is to use
emotive language and is not a convincing argument.
A Church of England canon has said the «
emotive language» used by Church leaders is stopping a «calm... More
A Church of England canon has said the «
emotive language» used by Church leaders is stopping a «calm conversation» on assisted dying.
Altizer is all élan, wildness, excessive generalization, brimming with colorful, flamboyant, and
emotive language.
There was plenty of precedent for Luther's
emotive language, not least in the denunciations of evil by the Jewish prophets, and by the greatest prophet of them all, Jesus of Nazareth.
This emotive language was also employed by the MP for Hallam, Nick Clegg, when he spoke about people being «dragged from their beds» by the police.
Nick Clegg has been accused of undermining the police service in Yorkshire by using «
emotive language» and uttering «nonsense».
Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and
emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.
Over the past few weeks ministers have used
emotive language to describe the plight of «migrants» in Calais.
Use descriptive and
emotive language, for example, «that first jump filled me with a profound sense of freedom.»
This is low stakes and fun, while giving the teacher an opportunity to introduce them to persuasive techniques such as: rhetorical questions, reasoning, generalizations, and
emotive language.
I am not one to favour hyperbolic and
emotive language but can find no other way to describe my view on this.
The emotive language and reporting on the exceptions is such a sensationalist manner often instills fear into potential investors.
Morris began her career making graphic paintings that adapted the dramatic,
emotive language used in newspaper and advertising tag lines.
The emotive language and graphics of the Climate Commission are there to scare the population into thinking the worst.
Emotive language and images are often used to convince farmers they should routinely be using the most modern antibiotics available, even though many scientists believe that such drugs should be held in reserve and only used for acute life - saving situations in farm animals, because closely related antibiotics are vitally important for saving lives in human medicine.»
«Despite heavy rhetoric about saving Aboriginal women and children from sexual violence, paedophile rings, all
this emotive language, we found no increase whatsoever in the rate of arrest for family violence or notifications of child abuse, despite in some cases a tripling of the number of police,» he said.