Emotionalism meaning

Thus it encouraged an unrestrained emotionalism, rank superstition, an unhealthy asceticism, and the employment of artificial means to induce the ecstatic state.

In contrast to the great French actress she avoided all "make-up"; her art depended on intense naturalness rather than stage effect, sympathetic force and poignant intellectuality rather than the theatrical emotionalism of the French tradition.

The faithful were encouraged to drown all tendency to thought in an ever-increasing flood of sensuous emotionalism.

I cannot recall a greater outpouring of hysterical emotionalism since the Children's Crusade - and I was much younger then.