Definition of Sensational

Sensational

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.

Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.

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Sensational Quotations

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Harry Houdini

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.
Robert Wagner

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
Tucker Carlson

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
George Herman

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
Ernie Pyle

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
Mark Rydell

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
Angus Young

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.
Dino De Laurentiis

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
Anthony Hecht

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.
Norma Shearer

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Sensational Translations

sensational in Dutch is sensationeel, geruchtmakend
sensational in German is sensationell, aufsehenerregend, sensationell
sensational in Spanish is sensacional

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