Examples of hortatory in a Sentence
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The tone is urgent, and hortatory, partly because the document doesn’t try to gloss over the challenges.
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Curbed, 15 Dec. 2022
While Thoreau could be haughty and hortatory, Ms. Shetterly, like one of her other literary heroes, E.B. White, strikes a more measured tone.
—Danny Heitman, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
Nothing in the show is either hortatory or sentimental but only hard-won, such as a series of drawings by Alevtina Kakhidze that begin in 2014 and narrate her contact with her mother in the occupied territory of Donetsk.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
Yet the Administration has interpreted the injunction as merely hortatory.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2022
Her posts are more hortatory than her journal entries, but not necessarily more disciplined.
—The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
While Sanders’ rhetoric was often hortatory and broad, Warren’s speech began with a deeply personal account of her upbringing in Oklahoma and the financial insecurity her family faced — introducing autobiography in a way that Sanders rarely does.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
Curbed, 15 Dec. 2022
While Thoreau could be haughty and hortatory, Ms. Shetterly, like one of her other literary heroes, E.B. White, strikes a more measured tone.
—Danny Heitman, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
Nothing in the show is either hortatory or sentimental but only hard-won, such as a series of drawings by Alevtina Kakhidze that begin in 2014 and narrate her contact with her mother in the occupied territory of Donetsk.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
Yet the Administration has interpreted the injunction as merely hortatory.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 May 2022
Her posts are more hortatory than her journal entries, but not necessarily more disciplined.
—The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
While Sanders’ rhetoric was often hortatory and broad, Warren’s speech began with a deeply personal account of her upbringing in Oklahoma and the financial insecurity her family faced — introducing autobiography in a way that Sanders rarely does.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
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“Hortatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hortatory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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