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Sensationalism   /sɛnsˈeɪʃənəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Sensationalism

noun
1.
Subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes.
2.
The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes.  Synonym: luridness.
3.
(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good.  Synonym: sensualism.
4.
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience.  Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy.





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"Sensationalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... powerful and beautiful story.... It fulfils every requirement of artistic fiction. It brings out what is most impressive in human action, without owing any of its effectiveness to sensationalism or artifice. It is natural, fluent in evolution, accordant with experience, graphic in description, penetrating in analysis, and absorbing ...
— Stradella • F(rancis) Marion Crawford
... her visits to the site became rarer and rarer. She died, at a patriarchal age, in her bed, after writing a scholarly pamphlet to prove that the tale of Sappho's leap over her famous silvery crag was a myth, the "purest sensationalism," a fable of the grammarians "hopelessly irreconcilable with what we know ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news. ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... sensationalism, the Shagreen Skin had a success of curiosity equal, and, if anything, superior to that of the Physiology. The author, however, had to defend himself against the charge of copying foreign literature—Hoffman's tales in particular. One of his correspondents, the Duchess de Castries, ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... been fed on sensationalism for more than two years. Everybody getting restless. Want to ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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