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UK
/sɛnsˈeɪʃənəlˌɪst/
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[ US /sɛnˈseɪʃənəɫɪst/ ]
[ US /sɛnˈseɪʃənəɫɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention
How To Use sensationalist In A Sentence
- Immersed in her ample lap, her adoring voice broadcasting stereophonically through her bosoms, I absorbed the sensationalistic stories and lush illustrations of baby Moses in his basket, later parting the very Red Sea. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- He believed that the discoveries of sensationalist psychology had made it possible to articulate the fundamental principles of social science.
- We here on this blog are anything but fear-mongering sensationalists.
- It seems to me that his lead sentence is the mark of a clear sensationalist.
- Sensationalists claimed to believe only what they saw, but in fact they were rather better at believing than seeing.
- The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon). What is Literary Fiction?
- Tut's glittering treasures made great headlines—and so did sensationalistic accounts of the subsequent death of expedition sponsor Lord Carnarvon.
- In an alternate Hollywood, the media mistakes him for his criminal double, and he's subjected to a sensationalist televised trial.
- Perhaps if the sensationalists looked at the effects of tobacco and alcohol on the populace, they would find more serious causes to champion.
- Personally, I find that the sensationalist presentation, tricksy camera work and scary music gets in the way of any profound analysis.