When the characters are in visible pain and the audience in visceral pain, the story has to be emotionally engaging or psychologically illuminating or simply new enough to match those feelings.

However, the overall result was praised as emotionally engaging and topical, and characters such as Liquid Ocelot were singled out for the quality of their depiction.

The novel "is a new work entirely, and Margaret Atwood's most emotionally engaging fiction thus far."

Holt has defined a blobject as, most often, a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product with a curvilinear, flowing shape.

Revisiting 9/11 Steven Rosenbaum's "Seven Days in September" was perhaps the most thoughtful and emotionally engaging film to come out of the attack on the World Trade Center.

"And what I mean by that is going for emotionally engaging sequences, a very big cinematic score, a pretty minimal narration" by Sigourney Weaver.

Opening on Wednesday, in the midst of splashy holiday movies with Hollywood budgets, this innovative film is more emotionally engaging than most mainstream movies.

For Amazon.com, whose practices are closely watched and often imitated, an emotionally engaging shopping experience is, simply enough, one that is convenient and cheap.

But his self-effacing style, concerned more with painstaking description than with creating an emotionally engaging drama of people or objects, captured the pulse of the age.

They revere Scarpa's fanatic attention to detail in his small but emotionally engaging structures, which display a rare ability to focus on the intimate and the cosmic with equal intensity.