It looked as though exhortations to courage were being whispered to him, and they had the effect of rousing him to energies of which he was not truly capable.
Though "Lifeguard" closes with an exhortation to "be joyful," the Kierkegaardian singleness of the God-possessed, quivering among the darker stars, predominates.
Soon after the speech, Greg Gutfield of Fox News' "The Five" commented, "This is great -- he's a conservative!" Though many see such an exhortation as a great compliment to a common-sense policy, there are those who find it dispiriting.
Worst of all, one week after torching the Pittsburgh Steelers with one deep pass after another, the Broncos seemed to forget John Elway's exhortation to Tebow to "pull the trigger," even though the Patriots possess one of the most porous pass defenses in the league.
Meanwhile, passengers in livery cars were twice as likely as cab riders to buckle up even though they never heard a single exhortation like "Don't be stupid!" The percentage of livery passengers using seat belts rose steadily throughout the decade, reaching 32percentt in 1997 and then 35percentt in 1999.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's now-famous exhortation, "Drill, baby, drill," though ridiculed by environmentalists, is echoed by a majority of Americans.
Christopher Marlowe's drama Tamburlaine (1587), though based on the life of the Asiatic conqueror, was an exhortation to his fellow Englishmen to penetrate the New World.
Exhortation, of course, is not enough.
This could be initiated through an exhortation to the I.M.F.
Last week's memo was longer on exhortation than on detail.
"For Victory, Buy More Bonds," the exhortation beneath her reads.
