He is saddled with the impossible task of serving as the film's emotional anchor.

John became her emotional anchor, her very reason for living.

For others, the group has provided an emotional anchor in choppy waters.

He had always provided an emotional anchor for his crew in even the most trying of times.

Without an emotional anchor, both series devolved into camp.

Their brief life together is the film's emotional anchor.

She needed an emotional anchor, someone to calm her, and to that end they had called Father Tom.

The price is a mental and emotional anchor, and you're likely to offer far more.

For me, his teaching also served as an emotional anchor.

Nuland's mother, the emotional anchor of his childhood, died when he was 11.