sensationality

Example Sentences

• "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.”"