exhortative

Example Sentences

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Detaching himself early from that exacting church, while retaining a touch of its exhortative spirit, he developed an interest in dance.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2024

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

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

I have omitted consideration of many works which bear on Evolutional Ethics as practical or exhortative treatises, or compilations of facts, but which involve no distinctly worked-out theory of morals.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.