The dual penetration broke the last threads of her control, both physical and emotional.

Another critic wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that the book "has no core, no emotional thread to draw the reader in and make us care."

When the group submitted its first script the network deemed it somewhat lacking in character development and in what executives call "emotional threads."

It picks up emotional threads and drops them; then, years and experiences later, it picks them up again.

They constitute the emotional thread that makes the story we see enacted in the theater coherent.

Because the movie can't find a common emotional thread to reconcile a clown like Gerhardt with a walking tragedy like Andrea, we're kept off balance.

As a result, they missed the emotional thread.

Too much apprehension, too many emotional threads reaching back into the blood-drenched mire of the past.

And yet there was a slight hollowness to the program, as if an emotional thread or raison d'etre were missing in this abundance of pleasure.

The emotional threads that have run through Ms. Ronstadt's earlier records are a girlish enthusiasm and pathos.