How To Use hortatory In A Sentence
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
- It's there in Patti Smith's visionary diction and hortatory intensity. Beaternity
- Inspector Roberts' document was a Branch Note, a Briefing Note, aspirational, hortatory in character, and entirely lacking in the authoritative provenance that would justify its description as a Policy Document.
- As is often the case with activist art, the Latin American selection, while rife with political and moral earnestness, is crudely hortatory and almost totally devoid of formal interest.
- Put into rhyme, it would fit into many of the rueful, hortatory songs of the '60s, when truthtelling was praised both as a moral medicine and for its beauty.
- There are exhortatory texts in majolica that run round the room as a frieze. Times, Sunday Times
- Was it not Mr. ALBERT CHEVALIER who used to sing some hortatory lyrics upon the inadvisability of introducing your donah to a pal? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917
- Film acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue - speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion, and still sound like plain-spoken common sense - techniques he used so dynamically in politics.
- For all their efforts, however, the Summit produced few tangible results - it was big on hortatory promises and small on actual commitments.
