sensational

Definition

  • adjective: causing very great excitement or interest with shocking details
  • adjective: of or relating to 'sensation' or the 'senses'

Examples

  • She looked 'sensational' in her new dress.

  • a particularly 'sensational' trial/crime

  • The books sold 'sensationally' well.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Most of it's tedious stuff of Laureen Hobbs and two fatigue jackets... muttering mutilated Marxism... but he's got eight minutes of a bank robbery... that is sensational! Authentic stuff shot while the robbery was going on. Remember the Mary Ann Gifford kidnapping? lt's that bunch of nuts. She's in (..)
    1976 Network
  • (..) - Yeah. This is from a David Susskind thing a while back. l think we can use some of this stuff. What we're going to see now is something really sensational. The Flagstaff lndependent Bank of Arizona was ripped off last week... by a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army. (..)
    1976 Network