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During the game of blind-man's buff, when the Prince's tutor Gallison grabs a lady-in-waiting with inadvertent lewdness, Ratmansky gives precise notes about how the woman needs to deliver her admonitory slap – "it must hurt a little bit, but do it with love".
We have been preparing for such moments for more than a century, since that July morning in 1897, at the height of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, when readers of the Times found on its leader page Rudyard Kipling's admonitory poem Recessional, which called for British humility and God's mercy in the light of the fact that no empire lasts for ever.
They are given lectura ("reading matter") rather than literatura, which is but to say that in Latin America the admonitory note, considered so useful by church, state, and parent, continues to be sounded.
Two contradictory statements have been telescoped into a line whose homely, admonitory sound conveys the impression of a popular adage.
Each essay includes an autobiography of the patriarch, including many elements of folk history (Haggada); an admonitory passage warning against the specific vice of the patriarch; and a prophecy, sometimes with apocalyptic overtones, explaining the fate of the patriarch's sons in the Last Age.
Common in China, Africa, Oceania, and North America, admonitory masks usually completely cover the features of the wearer.
Some African peoples hold that the first mask to be used was an admonitory one.
But in general, from John Cotton's Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646) through the Civil War, the admonitory and exemplary tract and the schoolmaster's pointer prevailed.
Masks, usually made of papier-mâché, are employed in the religious or admonitory drama of China; but for the greater part the actors in popular or secular drama make up their faces with cosmetics and paint to resemble masks, as do the Kabuki actors in Japan.
In traditional dress, the likembe player (Kabongo Tshisensa) is a sort of soothsayer who delivers admonitory fables which the cast translate for the rest of us.
For too many, the hand of friendship felt like an admonitory finger that was once again pointing at Britain's Muslims," she added.
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The adjective "admonitory" primarily functions to describe something that conveys a warning or gentle rebuke . Ludwig's examples show it modifying nouns like "poem", "sign", "tone", and "finger", indicating its role in characterizing the warning quality of these elements. Ludwig AI confirms its proper use.
Expression frequency: Very common
