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Sensationalism

noun

Subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes.

The journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes. Synonym: luridness.

(philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good. Synonym: sensualism.

(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience. Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy.

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"Sensationalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... and pellucid as is everything that comes from the pen of the great Manchester preacher. Even in treating the simplest incident he surprises his readers, and that without once forcing the note, or seeking sensationalism."—Christian World. ...

— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren

... oratory could play skillfully, as a master on a mighty organ, until every note in them thrilled to life and utterance. The Rev. Geoffrey Mountain was a good man; of the earth, earthy, to be sure, but with an unquestionable sincerity of belief and purpose which went far to counterbalance the sensationalism ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... humorist. Even so, he is perhaps our most representative writer in this field; for he is as thoroughly American as a man can be, and his rare culture and kindness are in refreshing contrast to the crude horseplay or sensationalism that is unfortunately trumpeted abroad as New ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... 1897 a great cry was raised about what was called "yellow" journalism, the mischievous sensationalism of certain metropolitan newspapers. The matter was taken up by the W. C. T. U. and Miss Willard sent out an address to prominent women asking that they should protest against this journalism and also against such spectacles as the recent Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... whole nation, reaching people through those usual conduits of press and pulpit, by which the products of philosophic thought are conveyed to unphilosophic minds. As naturally in France, hostility to all those influences which were believed to have brought about the Revolution, to sensationalism in metaphysics, to atheism in what should have been theology, to the notion of sovereignty of peoples in politics, inevitably sought a rallying-point in a renewed allegiance to that prodigious spiritual system ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre • John Morley

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