"He lacks the emotional vocabulary that would enable him to be a good husband or father."

Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning.

None of these concepts was in a Westerner's emotional or intellectual vocabulary.

Love had never been part of Shupansea's emotional vocabulary.

The more mythological the setting, the more contemporary the emotional vocabulary supplied by the music.

The word comeback was not part of their emotional vocabulary.

"I don't think Americans have 'terrorism' in their emotional vocabulary."

I think it's so important that boys read fiction, that they learn to empathise with characters in novels and develop an emotional vocabulary.

Thus, he simplifies his performance language to half of the basic emotional vocabulary of a domestic animal.

It's that Ms. Falco assumes an entirely new vocabulary of being, physical and emotional, for each character she plays.