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

The pain made him more tedious, long-winded and exhortatory than usual.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman