The difference between prohibitative and exhortative social feedback mechanisms is much more significant than people like to think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality and the liberal] Reference

Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference

Several of the mestizo's friends were supporting him, mainly with their physical presence, although they became vocally exhortative from time to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

Just as important, though, is a difference in function between retrospective appraisal and present judgments that have an exhortative function as much as anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends.] Reference

As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Visitor] Reference

Not all of it was partisan or get-out-the-vote exhortative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caveat Lector] Reference

But the words of the Apostle (it will be said) are exhortative and dehortative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference

Another day, another exhortative internal communiqué from a big-three Web giant.    From Wordnik.com.  [ClickZ News Blog] Reference

The Rev. Stephen Masterton felt his throat swell with his old exhortative indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference

Their message has to be accessible, clear and direct; informative and explanatory, as well as exhortative.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

Yet "-- his attitude became exhortative --" see how mighty is truth, see how she prevails, see how the scoffer is confounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Paramount] Reference

His charity, however, sometimes manifested itself in moral lectures, which partook more of the vehement invective style than the exhortative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.] Reference

Father Bernardus was too continually exhortative, and fenced too much to "hit the eyeball of her conscience," as he phrased it, to afford her repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

The plenipotentiaries bore this gibe with dignity, and decided to have recourse once more to their favorite, and, indeed, only method -- the despatch of exhortative telegrams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference

Chrysostom delivered a series of twenty or twenty-one (the nineteenth is probably not authentic) sermons, full of vigour, consolatory, exhortative, tranquilizing, until Flavian, the bishop, brought back from Constantinople the emperor's pardon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

He's also been thinking hard about the ever-expanding vision -- powerfully propagated by President Obama in his exhortative statements about how every American should spend some time in college, and about how we should aim to have the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020 -- of who should go to college.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Mass] Reference

I handed McCain a batch of his father’s exhortative cables to General Abrams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars of John McCain] Reference

After all, IPOA's exhortative but toothless Code of Conduct, Article 3.3, states "Signatories shall take firm and definitive action if their personnel engage in unlawful activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Isenberg: Just Another Day in Helping Make the U.S. Military the Best Supplied in Human History] Reference

An exhortative listener, on the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Bradley Plays Thoughtful Jock Early in the Game Against Al Gore] Reference

I hear my late mother's exhortative voice, her frequent warnings: "Don't show your anger to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita, Menier Chocolate Factory, London] Reference

After all, IPOA's exhortative but toothless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Success, a pile of exhortative nouns like Industriousness, Intentness, Enthusiasm, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference