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

But Robin Bell, who spent much of the previous administration projecting accusatory and exhortatory phrases on such edifices as the Trump International Hotel, here plants a field of solar-powered, color-shifting electronic toadstools.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 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

It is from the same register we obtain examples of an exhortatory name known to have existed at this time, viz.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.