Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
