No one would claim that the myth corresponds to much actual experience nowadays, but its emotional hold remains undiminished.

You don't know the emotional hold they have over you.

But they had no doubt about the emotional hold of the miners over the Labour movement.

And the unrequited love Laura feels for Jack never takes emotional hold.

And the two parks in jeopardy have a strong emotional hold on the neighborhood.

It shows the Browns have an enormous emotional hold on this community.

Mr. Jackson's emotional hold over his followers might not be so deep if he walked behind another man.

And as the events become more intense Bridges picks up the pace and tightens the film's emotional hold on us.

For this reason, a small museum can have an emotional hold upon us that is out of all proportion to its size.

Who would deny that food and cookbooks can have a powerful emotional hold?