I was prepared to be persuasive, touching, and
hortatory, admonitory and expostulating, if need be vituperative even, indignant and sarcastic; but what the devil does a mentor do when the sinner makes no bones about confessing his sin?
The term "calls upon" is
hortatory and does not impose a requirement.
Bishop Ricard's statement was just unprecedented, a
hortatory message, almost as if he were exhorting us, to say this is good," said Mary Helen Washington.
In addition to the use of these orders as policy initiation, implementation, and execution, presidential unilateral orders can be used for ceremonial, symbolic, or
hortatory purposes.
As for the constitutional protections spelled out in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, "we may read them as admonitory or
hortatory, not definite enough to be guides on concrete questions.
And yet, even if
hortatory, the gesture to presumed internal and external subjudicial constraint and expertise remains present.
Unlike, say, the work of Isa Genzken, whose towers of consumer detritus speak in critical,
hortatory imperatives, this was quiet stuff that chastely brought beautiful observations into view.
Redemption," the third section, manages to be imaginative,
hortatory and fun, for the most part.
The poems are amatory, satirical, humorous, dedicatory,
hortatory, sepulchral, and declamatory.
While he celebrates Taylor's work, Underwood is hardly
hortatory in his tone, even mentioning some of Taylor's weaknesses.
The sentence is technically a subjunctive conditional, with the additional complication that its main clause is either wishful or
hortatory, bordering on what in some languages would be called the optative, yet also taking the form of what grammarians categorize as an imperative.
1984e Do as I say: A study of selected features of
hortatory discourse in Eastern Kadazan.
