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

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 Harte, Bret