- a variation of exhortative.
exhortatory
Example Sentences
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Reviews were mixed, with some critics praising the show’s traditional look and feel, and others being turned off by what Mike Hale described in The New York Times as a “promotional, exhortatory, shrink-wrapped” ceremony.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
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
Among the improvements already noted, a zinc and wooden chapel had been erected in the main street, where a certain popular revivalist preacher of a peculiar Southwestern sect regularly held exhortatory services.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
