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.
- But this argument is irrelevant, because these hortatory declarations are not legally binding treaties of the sort that could grant such powers.
- 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
- 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.
- Such resistance to the hortatory mode in what is a designedly didactic poem recalls the paradoxical structure of ‘What I expected.’
- 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.
- The author's exhortatory enthusiasm must work splendidly at a streetdesign convention, but at book length it's rather tiring. Times, Sunday Times
- What he wrote was not philosophy but a species of hortatory essay. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
- 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.
- 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.
