Sensationality

I began to borrow the striking phraseology of N. Parker Willis, to experience a notion of no-leggedness, succeeded by an acute pit-of-the-stomach-rheumatic-sensationality, and a general savage impulse in the direction of chaotic pitch-a-head-a-tiveness.

It is a piece wholly sensational, and devoid of any special merit to atone for its redundancy of bad sensationality.

The names of these books gives not the slightest idea of their contents; and while perhaps, from this very sensationality (?) of title, they may tempt the curiosity of the general public; yet, for the same reason, they will be passed over by the Physician, except, indeed, when he chances to glance at the author’s name; and despite this singularity, Dr. Storer has a high name for authority, and his works are widely and deservedly popular.

We have now given a brief outline, first, of the power of Sensation or Sensationality, and, second, of the power of Perception or Perceptivity; together with some account of the senses, through which they respectively operate, and by means of which they are made available aa sources or inlets of knowledge.

The London Saturday Review pays the following well-merited compliment to two American lady authors: “Very few of even our best writers can compass a book for the young which shall be all that it ought to be, avoiding, on the one hand, extravagant sensationality and a standard so high as to be outside human nature altogether; on the other, vapid silliness, which no grown girl can accept as fitting food for her mind at all, and which irritates, as all pretense and make-believe must.[…]”

“Within two to three weeks after I am hired in this position, the media will realize that it won’t matter what kind of necklace I’m wearing or the color of my shoes,” she [Susan Stanton] said. “The sensationality will go away.”

The special sensationalities were the big drum, (as large as an ordinary room,) the big organ, and the anvil chorus.

By-the-way, those of your readers who have a love for stage sensationalities of the most brilliant and studied kind should endeavour to see Mrs. Bernard Beere in “As in a Looking Glass.”