26 enticing, marvelous, memorable words to elevate your writing
In ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ George Orwell used ‘doubleplusgood’ as a tepid modifier undermining expression. Today’s scribes need potent terms to convey magnificence. Try these descriptors.
Some writers, assuming that reasoning alone can sway readers, neglect the power of emotion.
Even the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who was no enemy of reason, taught that stimulating emotion in your audience can be the key to persuading them.
Communication, rather than simply inserting information into the audience’s head, is more like striking a tuning fork that resonates within the reader’s mind. Emotion resonates in a way that logic does not.
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