How To Use Hortatory In A Sentence
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
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Girlfight surrounds her with familiar fight-movie elements: the decrepit gym, decorated with hortatory slogans; the wizened coach with his own agenda of disappointments.
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It's there in Patti Smith's visionary diction and hortatory intensity.
Beaternity
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are exhortatory texts in majolica that run round the room as a frieze.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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For all their efforts, however, the Summit produced few tangible results - it was big on hortatory promises and small on actual commitments.
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We live in exhortatory times.
Globe and Mail
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The tone is solemn rather than exhortatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus there are really two kinds of story: that which shapes the Jesus narrative in each Gospel, and that which influences the didactic and hortatory arguments in the Epistles.
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Platitudes, hortatory admonitions, and boilerplate solutions proffered by such international agencies as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund won't take Africans very far.
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Anabaptists encouraged themselves mainly with hortatory texts and liturgical hymns extolling martyrs and martyrdom.
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If Washington means ‘war’ metaphorically, as when it speaks about a ‘war’ on drugs, the rhetoric would be uncontroversial, a mere hortatory device intended to rally support for an important cause.
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Her hortatory editorials argued for the observance of a national Thanksgiving holiday, and she encouraged the public to write to their local politicians.
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It always seems a little odd to be sitting at the computer composing a column containing hortatory thoughts for the January / February issue to launch us into a bright new year while there is so much going on before we get to that.
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Political commentators, by contrast, are hortatory and didactic - and angry.
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Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin.
The mission song
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He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study.
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Such resistance to the hortatory mode in what is a designedly didactic poem recalls the paradoxical structure of ‘What I expected.’
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In mid-November, the effort came to an unsuccessful end, as the committee opted to draft a hortatory declaration opposing human cloning rather than a binding treaty prohibiting it.
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The author's exhortatory enthusiasm must work splendidly at a streetdesign convention, but at book length it's rather tiring.
Times, Sunday Times
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What he wrote was not philosophy but a species of hortatory essay.
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
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I submit the following translation of Tocqueville's final hortatory sentence/paragraph of his masterpiece not as an invidious comparison but as an illustration of differing approaches to the difficult task of translation.
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But this argument is irrelevant, because these hortatory declarations are not legally binding treaties of the sort that could grant such powers.
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The show's catalog contains no fewer than 20 essays explaining the therapeutic and hortatory intentions of this work.
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What he wrote was not philosophy but a species of hortatory essay.
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
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Perhaps the event's exhortatory character had become too blatant.
Times, Sunday Times
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I made a brief exhortatory speech to the team before we went out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Karris acknowledges the author's hortatory use of ‘good deeds’ and the catchword ‘sound’ to shame the opposition and to encourage believers.
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At first Mrs. Greyne contented herself with daily letters, but latterly she had resorted to wires, explanatory, condemnatory, hortatory, and even comminatory.
The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905
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Constitutionalism implies that the constitution is a real rather than merely hortatory instrument.
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The latter, as a rule, is the more important; but if, as in the case of Origen, more attention be paid to the former, the homily will be called expository rather than moral or hortatory.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
