admonitory

And while the formal rules on travel have relaxed, the admonitory official language is unchanged.

The aunt with a name becomes “No Name Woman”; she becomes a story, one of the admonitory “talk-stories” that Kingston’s mother will tell years later to her California-born daughter.

A piratical pastor in a boxcar and two rich, tuxedoed drunks on the same train are like admonitory bookends on the subjects of class and self-determination.

But the tone of “State Funeral” is more meditative than admonitory.

The traffic signals in several of his pictures glow an admonitory red or orange.