Meaning of sensationality | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being sensational.
   uncountable
2. Something or someone sensational.
   countable

Examples

“I began to borrow the striking phraseology of N. Parker Willis, to experience⟳ a notion of no-leggedness, succeeded by an acute pit-of-the-stomach-rheumatic-sensationality, and a general savage impulse in the direction of chaotic pitch-a-head-a-tiveness.”

“It is a piece wholly sensational, and devoid of any special merit to atone for its redundancy of bad sensationality.”

“The names of these books gives not the slightest idea of their contents; and while perhaps, from this very sensationality (?) of title, they may tempt the curiosity of the general public; yet, for the same reason⟳, they will be passed over by the Physician, except, indeed, when he chances to glance⟳ at the author’s name⟳; and despite this singularity, Dr. Storer has a high name⟳ for authority, and his works are widely and deservedly popular.”

“We have⟳ now given a brief outline, first, of the power of Sensation or Sensationality, and, second, of the power of Perception or Perceptivity; together with some account of the senses, through which they respectively operate⟳, and by means of which they are made available aa sources or inlets of knowledge.”

“The London Saturday Review⟳ pays the following well-merited compliment to two American lady authors: “Very few of even our best writers can compass a book for the young which shall be all that it ought to be, avoiding, on the one hand, extravagant sensationality and a standard so high as to be outside human nature altogether; on the other, vapid silliness, which no grown girl can accept⟳ as fitting food for her mind⟳ at all, and which irritates, as all pretense and make-believe must.[…]””

““Within two to three weeks after I am hired in this position, the media will realize⟳ that it won’t matter⟳ what kind of necklace I’m wearing or the color of my shoes,” she [Susan Stanton] said. “The sensationality will go away.””

“The special sensationalities were the big drum, (as large as an ordinary room,) the big organ, and the anvil chorus.”

“By-the-way, those of your readers who have⟳ a love⟳ for stage⟳ sensationalities of the most brilliant and studied kind should endeavour to see⟳ Mrs. Bernard Beere in “As in a Looking Glass.””

“Nevertheless, the picture (which has been bought by the Government) would make⟳ most things in the Academy look⟳ weak, and it may serve⟳ as an occasion for pointing out that M. Gervais, whose name⟳ and works seem curiously unknown in England, is a perfectly different person from M. Gervex, with whom he seems generally to be confounded, and who is but a clever painter of sensationalities, with no sense⟳ of colour, while M. Gervais is a great colorist with a monumental style.”

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