affecting
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for affecting
Synonyms
emotional, impactful, impressive, moving, poignant, stirring, touching
Antonyms
unaffecting, unemotional, unimpressive
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News crews on Monday documented a similarly affecting scene, with children being carried away from crumpled cars in stretchers as firetrucks and yellow police tape blocked off the downtown street. — Author: Antonia Noori Farzan, Anchorage Daily News, "A Dayton stabbing suspect stole and crashed a police SUV, killing 2 children and injuring 9 people," 27 Aug. 2019 One of the most affecting illustrations of our malign influence appears in the middle of Macfarlane’s book. — New York Times, "The Unseen Worlds Beneath Us: Places of Beauty, Danger and Wisdom," 7 June 2019 La Serna and Starn tell this story through the most affecting portrait of the book, that of MarÃa Elena Moyano, the insouciant daughter of urban homesteaders. — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, "A Jagged Scrap of History," 24 June 2019 One of the most affecting sections in Jones’s biography examines Geisel’s moral evolution, demonstrating how an artist could answer to his conscience independently, if imperfectly, decades before the advent of cancel culture. — I-huei Go, The New Yorker, "How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America," 5 June 2019 What The First is: a surprisingly affecting drama about several families and a planet in crisis. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "Hulu’s The First is everything wrong with modern TV drama. Reader, I loved it.," 14 Sep. 2018 One of the most affecting pieces in the show drives this point home. — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, "Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.," 30 May 2018 The tragedy of watching him try to extract himself from his Soviet minders, connect with his oblivious son, and try to find his moral core is the most affecting part of the show. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Is The Americans a Good Show, or a Great One? The Next 2 Weeks Will Settle the Question," 18 May 2018 This is an intensely melancholic performance: Julie’s grief at the death of her love seems to come in great unstoppable waves, the most affecting moment of the night. — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, "Jessie Mueller stars in a Broadway 'Carousel' that reminds us life is all too short," 13 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'affecting.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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