exhortative
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But his tone, neither exhortative nor triumphalist nor even particularly reassuring, is sort of … flat.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2021
Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rev. Stephen Masterton felt his throat swell with his old exhortative indignation.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
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