exhortation
Example Sentences
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She almost added, “Especially for ponies,” but she was not sure whether her exhortations to Rainbow while riding the velocipede had been overheard by Simon, so she omitted that detail for now.
From Literature
The times, then and now, the book implies, call for vehement exhortation.
“When you grow up in poverty, you grow up in survival mode,” she says in one of several direct exhortations to the audience.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s an exhortation and an anthem — “Be the rain you remember falling” — the emotional peak of a song cycle about a girl named Sun Green who’s trying to save the Earth.
From Salon
That said, even if some of Gilbert’s analysis feels 10 years out of date, it is nonetheless a reminder of where we come from as a culture, and a reinvigorating exhortation not to return there.
From Los Angeles Times
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