Scholars have attempted to gauge the emotive force and range of Hindustani ragas:

Formerly the country's Chancellery, the great, blackened neo-classical structure continues to exert a powerful and emotive force in Berlin and throughout the nation.

Today she sounds far more spontaneous and increasingly personal, projecting an expressive fluidity and a gutsy emotive force.

Fauteux sculptures are spare in form but intense in clarity of emotive force.

A work's emotive force, she said, still emerges mysteriously.

There is a central emotive force that comes from the dancers' own experience, who they are as people and how mature they are.

Romantic poetry slowly lost some of its popularity due to its concentration on emotive forces.

To rule, ignorant of the most powerful emotive forces in my subjects, means that I must, at times, be in error.

I'm not sure there is an easy way to convey to anybody under 30, for example, the sheer emotive force that the word "[expletive]" possessed in the urban childhood culture of 40 years ago.

That had "emotive force" with the British public, Gilbert says.