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Movingly

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mov·ing  (mvng)
adj.
1. Changing or capable of changing position: a moving target.
2. Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another: moving expenses; moving van.
3. Causing or producing motion.
4. Involving a motor vehicle in motion: a moving violation.
5. Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion: a moving account of the tragedy.

moving·ly adv.
Synonyms: moving, stirring, poignant, touching, affecting
These adjectives mean arousing or capable of arousing deep, usually somber emotion. Moving is the least specific: "A ... widow ... has laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Something stirring excites strong, turbulent, but not unpleasant feelings: a stirring speech about patriotism.
Poignant suggests the evocation of keen, painful emotion: "Poignant grief cannot endure forever" W.H. Hudson.
Touching emphasizes sympathy or tenderness: a touching eulogy.
Affecting applies especially to what is heart-rending or bittersweet: an affecting photo of the hostages' release.
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Adv.1.movingly - in a moving manner; "she sang movingly"


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For you might spend your life, say, in studying the London street boy, and write never so movingly and humourously about him, yet would he never know your name; and though Whitechapel makes novelists, it does so without knowing it,--makes them to be read in Mayfair,--just as it never wears the dainty hats and gowns its weary little milliners and seamstresses make through the day and night.
And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket
After dinner, Don Pedro came to me, and desired to know my reason for so desperate an attempt; assured me, "he only meant to do me all the service he was able;" and spoke so very movingly, that at last I descended to treat him like an animal which had some little portion of reason.
 
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