Exhortatory

Word EXHORTATORY
Character 11
Hyphenation ex hor ta to ry
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With her spiked, streaked hair and rapid-fire, exhortatory way of speaking, Mari Carmen Ramírez, the curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, could easily have been a political agitator. ❋ Judith H. Dobrzynski (2012)

If the syntax is modifying, is its mood declarative (those affections and recollections do uphold us), or imperative/exhortatory (Uphold us, truths that wake!)? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sitting beneath maps of the West Bank and exhortatory posters - "Silwan is our home" - that ring the tarp's "walls," local residents explain their situation to small groups of tourists and visiting journalists. ❋ Diane Winston (2010)

Although this passage likely refers to the death of Duke Federico, on 10 September 1482, its exhortatory tone is akin to the fixing gaze of the goddess Rhetoric. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The third ability, exercitatio or imitatio (practice), is in fact the exhortatory objective of the dystich and — recalling the fixing gazes of Federico and the goddess Rhetoric — of the Gubbio studiolo in general. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Ought not” and the “wisdom of the government” sound more exhortatory than mandatory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was, I considered (perhaps under the influence of the kind smile and exhortatory squeeze on the arm bestowed on me by Jimmy Carter, president of my darkest adolescence, as he passed me in the doorway of a LoDo Mexican restaurant), like the change that might occur between the first and second volumes of some spectacular science fiction fantasy epic. ❋ Chabon, Michael (2008)

Translating King's exhortatory metaphor into granite might seem hackneyed, and so might the idea of having his figure emerge from the granite. ❋ Catesby Leigh (2008)

Delivered in Obama's exhortatory cadences, the words are uplifting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1873, twelve states had “some form of institutionalized insurance regulation”; in 1890, seventeen states; in 1905, twenty-two.8 Early commissions were usually advisory or exhortatory; they built up their bureaucratic traditions, and gained power and skill, unevenly but definitely. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

His speeches were laundry lists of slogans and exhortatory phrases such as "Ya jabal ma yahzak reeh" ( "O mountain, the wind cannot shake you!") and "Li-l-Quds rayyihin, shuhada bi-l-malayyin" ( "To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions") interspersed with Koranic verses. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Imagine the poems as a series of different self-revising, self-interrupting voices—the different voices we use to talk to ourselves in our own minds incantatory, exhortatory, scolding, disgusted, delighted, genial, nonsensical that belong to the different characters we carry around in our own heads. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

In spite of his appearance, Harris is very angry, and "Letter" is a readable, exhortatory screed, a response to all the Scripture-quoting e-mail he received from Christians who read his first book. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet SteveJobs'Steve Jobs' Apple Computer, which ships a warning with each iPod that cautions "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume", includes exhortatory phrases such as "crank up the tunes" and "bring in the noise" in lesson manuals related to the device, according to Patterson's lawsuit. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Whether he is celebrating heroes or lampooning victims, or presenting dilemmas and challenges, there is an exhortatory element that is not present in the songs of Henderson or McGinn. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The Rule of St. Benedict represents the accumulated spiritual wisdom of earlier centuries of monastic experience, drawing as it does on the writings of Cassian (See c. 340), the practice of monastic life in southern Europe, and (especially) The Rule of the Master, a long, detailed, exhortatory document. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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