Example sentences for: exhortations

How can you use “exhortations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So Lefty's exhortations on the subject of wise-guy etiquette--carry your money in a wad, not a wallet, lose the facial hair--have an unusual zeal: Lefty is looking for another shot at fatherhood.

  • They used the mass media, especially radio, to broadcast their bloody exhortations.

  • But Chris and his missus are having an arid patch, sexually speaking, so Toni's exhortations prompt heady flashbacks to less confining times: Chris' days as an arty photographer in Paris, when he learned how to make love to les femmes from a lusciously soft-thighed coquette called Annick (Elsa Zylberstein).

  • The narrative is incessantly interrupted by cinematic placards, exhortations, lectures about staying in school (in the form of letters from the boy's dead mother, played by Lonette McKee), and inserts depicting the evils of drugs and alcohol.

  • For the last decade, Lee has been attempting to craft a new kind of artfully slapdash film syntax--one that mixes jivey jump-cuts with Brechtian exhortations, that tries to build immense dramatic structures out of dissonance and opposition.


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