exhortatory
Example Sentences
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There is now, through no one’s individual fault, a consistently promotional, exhortatory, shrink-wrapped feeling to the Oscars.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2023
Under Goldman’s inspired direction, these instructive and exhortatory dimensions coexist with scenes that, without devolving into mere entertainment, recall an edge-of-your-seat thriller.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021
Of course, this drama would need to be as nuanced and opaque as history itself – not merely heroic or exhortatory or cheerfully progressivist.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013
Softspoken in person, Freedia has an onstage voice as deep and exhortatory as Chuck D’s.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010
His prayers and exhortatory teaching completely non-plussed the Chippewas.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
