Sentence examples for admonitory example from inspiring English sources

A malicious wit, this Andrew Niccol: by forcing the audience to take the bullet's flight, he is suggesting that we are complicit both in arms sales (the United States is a leading exporter) and in eager enjoyment of movie violence, of which this sequence is a startling and admonitory example.

Our Children is part Greek tragedy, part case history, part admonitory social parable about class, race and colonialism.

For example, Fig. 8 paints a clear admonitory picture of how UK businesses rate the risks of vendor lock-in against the decision to migrate/adopt cloud services.

Hand proposed that the Bill of Rights was not law at all but a set of "admonitory" principles to ensure the fair exercise of constitutional powers.

Three months ago, in an admonitory talk to a conference on Wall Street, Williams preached the example of a "good life" spent spreading the wealth that is "the sum of one's loving relationships with people" — which does not entirely explain why he spends so much effort in pursuit of "loving relationships" with the most unbending conservatives in his church.

Sometimes the destruction is admonitory.

Yet it was also an admonitory poem — admonitory to myself.

"It was more admonitory than we imagined".

Mr. Obama's admonitory "red line" demarcation has evidently been transgressed.

For better or worse, that admonitory drum is the true voice of this show.

In a stern, admonitory tone, Shahrzad asked, "Why are you wearing so much eyeliner?