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Where other climate books are exhortative or doom-laden, Doerr’s is straightforward.
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Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan.
—New York Times, 24 June 2021
In it, the exhortative words of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr. have been converted into a musical score, recordings of which sound through the gallery.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
Similarly, a fantastical and allegorical epergne, or ornamental server, made for the centennial exhibition, features a female figure embodying America — hair flowing, garland in hand — standing upon a globe, as exhortative as the national anthem.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
And even after her death, the show stays on message, thanks to an exhortative turn by the production’s only other female character, Joan’s mother (Mare Winningham, in an 11 o’clock appearance).
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
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Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2021
Not far behind is the pulpit dervish Clara Walker, whose exhortative way with a tune doubles as furnace and fan.
—New York Times, 24 June 2021
In it, the exhortative words of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr. have been converted into a musical score, recordings of which sound through the gallery.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
Similarly, a fantastical and allegorical epergne, or ornamental server, made for the centennial exhibition, features a female figure embodying America — hair flowing, garland in hand — standing upon a globe, as exhortative as the national anthem.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
And even after her death, the show stays on message, thanks to an exhortative turn by the production’s only other female character, Joan’s mother (Mare Winningham, in an 11 o’clock appearance).
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
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“Exhortative.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhortative. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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