The nervousness, the excessive emotion, the inability to stay in the background.

There is no need for haranguing, badgering, judgmentalism or excessive emotion.

Just when the plot seems to be veering perilously close to melodrama, Lewis's cool, detached tone keeps the threat of excessive emotion at bay.

A budding artist whose work scratches "no deeper than the surface of things," Charles is a man in whom excessive emotion always causes "disquiet."

Despite her earlier comments, Beth found herself in danger of excessive emotion.

"It was felt that limiting your contact to someone of my heritage--Vulcan--would prevent you from exposure to excessive emotion before you were ready."

Sentimentality was not to be trusted: "The ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel," he wrote.

Any private grief felt, or sense of loss from a non-blood relative, could be expressed, but the words had to be delivered without excessive emotion.

After all, it was forbidden to show excessive emotion in the presence of a Cwan.

Green was prone to monosyllabic answers during her interview with Hutchinson, and described herself as "tuning out" to avoid excessive emotion.