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exhortatory

Some carried signs with exhortative cheers for their children.

The ads, which use exhortative themes like "Leave no child behind," look to raise consciousness along with eyebrows.

There are three forms in the imperative: the singular, the plural, and the exhortative.

Exhortative constructions can only be used in second person singular and plural utterances.

The exhortative form is rarely used.

The exhortative is a hortative modality in English.

The exhortative avidly encourages or strongly urges.

He became known in the cities where he preached for lively, exhortative, and often humorous oratory.

Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time.

Exhortative modality signals the speaker's avid encouragement toward the addressee's bringing about the proposition of an utterance.

But his statements--often delivered as strong, exhortative oral poetry--cut much deeper.

Fliers and posters distributed around the city feature an exhortative slogan, "Don't Feed The Rats!"

The first person subject conjunctive forms have special allomorphs when they occur with the exhortative suffix -ma:

In every antiapartheid film or South African-based news broadcast he saw, a certain type of exhortative choral music always seemed to be in the background.

That explains the exhortative tone of the campaign, which seeks to burnish the Dreyfus brand image by imploring investors to "Rule your kingdom."

So Mr. Muir went into an exhortative riff: "Can you imagine, instead of abandoned trucks, a promenade?

White House dinners starred writers and thinkers, not donors; the rhetoric was exhortative and the First Lady's clothes were cut from the finest cloth.

Michele's most mature writings are probably the fifteen hexametric Sermones objurgatorii, exhortative sermons.

The center of electronica culture will always be clubs, whose booming sound systems and spirit of sweaty communality require music that is exhortative and party-propelling.

I hope Parliament will endorse our report and that the Council and the Commission will see it as supportive as well as exhortative.

The third person conjunctive form is usually null, but it is expressed by -d za when it occurs after the exhortative or permissive suffixes.

But I do know that, with its exhortative rhythms, it's as entrancing a show as any in the city right now, and in less than two weeks it will be gone.

"Live in Your Head," the exhortative title of the first large survey of Conceptual art, in Zurich in 1969, has probably inspired all kinds of artists.

And Cole Porter's wittily exhortative "Experiment," from "The Nymph Errant," is the suite's epigrammatic postscript.

Barbara Kruger, for example, made her exhortative captions part of the image, while Cindy Sherman's early "Film Stills" plugged into each viewer's memory bank of movies.

But a stance that was once exhortatory has turned playful.

The music is far more artful and dynamic than one might expect given the exhortatory nature of the project.

But my speech was still sober and exhortatory, the standard graduation fare.

He continues on with three or four exhortatory sentences to build the applause, and raise the pitch.

There were not necessarily exhortatory, but addressed practical questions of government and sometimes even included direct orders.

Various exhortatory banners hung from the rails at the front of the upper decks.

Frederick Douglass was a familiar, exhortatory presence there.

However, in Anthony Mary's additions, the peremptory style turns exhortatory.

"It would make it exhortatory, instead of flat.

Finally, a large group of poems of the Old Testament that urge action and are exhortatory.

And he'd build a song up from a tiny, compressed, nasal voice to a full-out, exhortatory shout.

Arguments about law's limits in its exhortatory and dispute-resolution functions present a strong case and are widely advanced.

Soon Joss found a preaching style that was his own, not se much exhortatory as explanatory.

Testaments are regarded as exhortatory writings; ethics therefore are fundamental to the text.

I loved her voice, and I could tell that she loved it too: propulsive, exhortatory, accusatory.

And the exhortatory hymns that had resonated through black churches for decades were translated into anthems of defiance.

He gathered the warriors and made brave, exhortatory speeches that had them cheering and beating on their shields with spears.

When they do go to preschool and kindergarten, they are taught much the way these books are written: in gentle, exhortatory, upbeat style.

Still, the matter is awash in the obligatory vitriol, the petitions, the exhortatory fliers and - just wait, it's coming - the litigation.

For instance, this link, an exhortatory essay from one newcomer singer addressed to other newcomers, urges them to respect the practices of traditional singers.

And one can easily imagine her words - extravagantly romantic, politically exhortatory - in the East Harlem air in that heady time.

In the case of Hothouse Flowers, that means exhortatory, densely textured folk-rock with a light soul flavoring.

"Carmina Burana," with its celebration of wine, women and song, has an exhortatory blasting sound that often cries out for parody.

The Townsend Letter, Mr. Townsend's weekly exhortatory and partisan call to action, dominated the front page.

Nunokawa, who is a youthful-looking fifty-two, began using Facebook in 2005, as an alternative to burdening his students with too many exhortatory e-mails.