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Sensational

adjective

Causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion.

Commanding attention. Synonyms: arresting, stunning. "A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten" , "A stunning performance"

Relating to or concerned in sensation. Synonym: sensory. "Sensory organs"

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"Sensational" Quotes from Famous Books

... a salad fork and a dessert spoon still untouched beside our plates. It would have been thoughtful if Ruth had waited and lit her fuse when the finger-bowls came on. It seemed a shame to me to waste two perfectly good courses, and unnecessarily sensational to interrupt the ceremony of a Sunday dinner. But it was impossible to sit there through two ...

— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

... idea of the wild life of the Western Islands in those rough days, reminding one not seldom of Sir Walter Scott's Lord of the Isles. It is full of incident and sensational adventure."—The Guardian. ...

— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty

... That would be delightful. Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems ...

— The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • Oscar Wilde

... peculiarly pervasive "sense of place," for which his landscape is of course famous, and which in these dreams was emphasized through a subtle ominousness of atmosphere. You perceived what the place stood for, its sensational elements, and you began vaguely to imagine the kind of event for which it would form a suitable background. In his pictures the element was a sort of dream-infusion, as though in each scene the secret goddess, the Naiad of the spot, must have stood close to him ...

— Shapes that Haunt the Dusk • Various

... books. Among these books were four treasure troves that set my boy's imagination on fire. They were Stanley's Adventures in Africa, Dr. Kane's Book of Polar Explorations, Mungo Park, and, most amazing of all, a huge, sensational book called Savage Races of the World ... this title was followed by a score of harrowing and sensational sub-titles in rubric. I revelled and rolled in this book like a colt let out to first pasture. For days and nights, summer and winter, I fought, hunted, was native to all the world's savage ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

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