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With her spiked, streaked hair and rapid-fire, exhortatory way of speaking, Mari Carmen Ramírez, the curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, could easily have been a political agitator.

Derivative Works No More Judith H. Dobrzynski 2012

If the syntax is modifying, is its mood declarative (those affections and recollections do uphold us), or imperative/exhortatory (Uphold us, truths that wake!)?

The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

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.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

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.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

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.

City on a Hill: Can the US Provide a Model for Israel? Diane Winston 2010

“Ought not” and the “wisdom of the government” sound more exhortatory than mandatory.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Bond Markets and Republics: 2009

It was, I considered (perhaps under the influence of the kind smile and exhortatory squeeze on the arm bestowed on me by Jimmy Carter, president of my darkest adolescence, as he passed me in the doorway of a LoDo Mexican restaurant), like the change that might occur between the first and second volumes of some spectacular science fiction fantasy epic.

Obama & the Conquest of Denver Chabon, Michael 2008

Translating King's exhortatory metaphor into granite might seem hackneyed, and so might the idea of having his figure emerge from the granite.

An Inflated, Ossified Memorial Catesby Leigh 2008

Delivered in Obama's exhortatory cadences, the words are uplifting.

A Liberal’s Lament 2008

In 1873, twelve states had “some form of institutionalized insurance regulation”; in 1890, seventeen states; in 1905, twenty-two.8 Early commissions were usually advisory or exhortatory; they built up their bureaucratic traditions, and gained power and skill, unevenly but definitely.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985