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noun

Sensationalist n.

(Metaph.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

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Etymology of 'Sensationalist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sensationalist" Quotes from Famous Books

... and ideas, into the knowledge of real being, wherein he takes part with Berkeley, extending to the inner world of soul the scepticism which that philosopher had applied to the outer world of matter. In the psychological branch Hume is a sensationalist, in the ontological a sceptic. The latter however has no relation to our present subject. It is from the former that his views on religion are deduced. In no writer is the logical dependence of religious opinion on metaphysical principles visible in a more ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... been modified so as to avoid this gruesome episode. A woman scorned, vengeful, and penitent would have furnished forth material enough for his finale and dismissed his audience with less disturbance of their moral and physical stomachs. But Strauss, to put it mildly, is a sensationalist despite his genius, and his business sense is large, as New Yorkers know ever since he wound up an artistic tour of America with a concert in a department store. When Nietszche was the talk of Germany we got "Also Sprach Zarathustra." ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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