Delivered in Obama's exhortatory cadences, the words are uplifting.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Liberal’s Lament] Reference

Various exhortatory banners hung from the rails at the front of the upper decks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

“Ought not” and the “wisdom of the government” sound more exhortatory than mandatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bond Markets and Republics:] Reference

Translating King's exhortatory metaphor into granite might seem hackneyed, and so might the idea of having his figure emerge from the granite.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inflated, Ossified Memorial] Reference

If the syntax is modifying, is its mood declarative (those affections and recollections do uphold us), or imperative/exhortatory (Uphold us, truths that wake!)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth] Reference

Although this passage likely refers to the death of Duke Federico, on 10 September 1482, its exhortatory tone is akin to the fixing gaze of the goddess Rhetoric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Whether he is celebrating heroes or lampooning victims, or presenting dilemmas and challenges, there is an exhortatory element that is not present in the songs of Henderson or McGinn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poet, the worker and the professional] Reference

In spite of his appearance, Harris is very angry, and "Letter" is a readable, exhortatory screed, a response to all the Scripture-quoting e-mail he received from Christians who read his first book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beliefwatch: The Atheist] Reference

After several are thus collected, he opens the cover of the tin box, deposits them therein with a certain ceremony, and commences an exhortatory discourse to the manikins in the bottle, -- two of whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

In Moscow itself a sullen fear spread downward from the ranks of high Party officials, who knew the reality behind the communiqués and the exhortatory proclamations which glared down from the drab walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

Sitting beneath maps of the West Bank and exhortatory posters - "Silwan is our home" - that ring the tarp's "walls," local residents explain their situation to small groups of tourists and visiting journalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [City on a Hill: Can the US Provide a Model for Israel?] Reference

The third ability, exercitatio or imitatio (practice), is in fact the exhortatory objective of the dystich and — recalling the fixing gazes of Federico and the goddess Rhetoric — of the Gubbio studiolo in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

His voice had an exhortatory but tender tone in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

+ The first part comprises the seven exhortatory letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

"Young people," he said, affecting mirthfully an exhortatory manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

The pain made him more tedious, long-winded and exhortatory than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

His prayers and exhortatory teaching completely non-plussed the Chippewas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

The duty in our text, with the duty in our hands, pressing them on still in an exhortatory way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference

Woodlands without any display of that extraordinary exhortatory faculty for which he was famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference

According to a quick search, the Princeton website has about 40 pages that contain the exhortatory phrase "Be firm.".    From Wordnik.com.  [IvyGate] Reference

I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

It turns out that the cover sheets routinely showed pictures of tanks and troops with exhortatory quotes from Scripture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

I could take no part in it, but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference

Many inscriptions, comminatory or exhortatory, written in books and directed to readers, have been commemorated in "N. & Q.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

She moved to the door as she spoke, and, before leaving the room, took advantage of Richard's back being turned to make certain exhortatory signs to her sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

Returning to England, he became famous as a military preacher, preaching exhortatory sermons before assaults on fortified places, and attracting adherents to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Reverend Stephen Masterton, the single erect, passionate figure of that confused medley of kneeling worshipers, had reached the culminating pitch of his irresistible exhortatory power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference

Comminatory and exhortatory cautions not to soil, spoil, or tear books and MSS. occur so frequently in the records of monastic libraries, that a whole album could easily be filled with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

So much of ink and paper and typography may be needed, I fear, to remind you, in a more exhortatory civilization, that Graciosa is really, by all the standards of her day, a well reared girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act] Reference

In like manner the remainder of the sonnet sequence turns inward, with many poems meditative and contemplative in character, or self-exhortatory: "Yet Faith still cries, Love will not falsifie" (32).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] Reference

Among the improvements already noted, a zinc and wooden chapel had been erected in the main street, where a certain popular revivalist preacher of a peculiar Southwestern sect regularly held exhortatory services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

I have none, or he should have it; but I have replied in a consolatory and exhortatory epistle, praying him to abate three and sixpence in the price of his next boke, seeing that half a guinea is a price not to be given for any thing save an opera ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference

"marquee-ing" of the "Dulce" line for his own exhortatory purposes - but I think you are correct in not taking Horace's apparent bang-the-drum militarism too seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

It feels more exhortatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love After Love] Reference

Then came images of an exhortatory Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary and the Invisible Women] Reference