Her melodies are sparer and more sharply outlined, and her emotionally loaded stream-of-consciousness lyrics have shed some of their girlish frills.

Afrocentricity today is an emotionally loaded term, for many reasons, not the least of which is it lacks a definition on which everyone agrees.

Strangely, given the emotionally loaded theme, this shifting of roles offered few insights into anything but the simplest of family behavior.

Despite its emotionally loaded theme, the film is a scrupulously suds-free examination of motherhood as it is viewed in first- and third-world countries.

He'd not had tune to learn to shield himself, certainly not in such an emotionally loaded situation as this.

The emotionally loaded estrangement between mother and son burst into the public eye earlier this year after the rajmata died at age 81 on Jan. 25.

Nin occasionally laments the difficulty of juggling so many emotionally loaded affairs.

Use of this emotionally loaded phrase to describe the many Americans concerned with this issue, most of whom support legal immigration, does not advance the debate.

Cars are highly symbolic and emotionally loaded products.

But it doesn't activate until there's an emotionally loaded event.