Overall, Chesnutt's writing style is formal and subtle, demonstrating little emotive power.

Well, of course he had emotive power!

The line between uncreased youth and facial emotive power, however, is not always clear.

The power of a painting depended not only upon technical skills but also upon emotive powers.

Among ordinary people almost everywhere, however, the idea of monarchy had still great emotive power.

The most poetic words in a text can be given more emotive power by using melisma.

But though these women have taken on dimensionality, they have lost something in emotive power.

The high profile and emotive power of the Hong Kong issue will make it very difficult for the administration to ride roughshod over such demands.

It isn't just the supply of dirty words that matters, it's their emotive power.

Consequently, symbols with emotive power carry problems analogous to false etymologies.