All the emotional payoff without the actual scary of real life.

The rest is excessively derivative with very little emotional payoff.

He'll help us if there's some kind of emotional payoff in it.

And even in this least mawkish of series, there is an emotional payoff.

The play doesn't deliver the emotional payoff it's aiming for.

The emotional payoff is minimal, however, because you've never believed, as you have to, in the play's central relationships.

A couple of ingredients seem crucial to an emotional payoff.

Is our giving imperfect if we seek an emotional payoff?

Given the pressures of running both a business and a career, eventually Latifah needs an emotional payoff.