"Make this the year YOU discover a new destination," he sarcastically writes in its captions, recalling the banal exhortations of holiday brochures.
He may reject laissez-faire, but a retreat from industrial policy, watering down the green investment bank and mere exhortations for banks to lend again does not suggest success.
Faced with mounting obesity rates and a stubbornly sedentary population, physicians – especially pediatricians – are refining their exhortations that patients need to get more exercise.
But as we get older, and our world more crowded with microparticles and exhortations to fun-free living, so it becomes a tempting option, even to those of us who are proud of our openness.
These are not the sort to be moved by exhortations to pluralism from the founder.
How hollow must American exhortations to democracy sound to foreign ears?
Western governments long ago stopped their exhortations, half-hearted at the best of times, to the Algerian authorities to resolve their country's crisis by allowing democratic change.
Advertising billboards praise Egypt's youth and show small children, faces painted with Egyptian flags, alongside exhortations to buy new mobile phones.
Despite this reviewer's exhortations, my palms don't sweat, my pulse doesn't quicken and I don't "feel the power and potential for endless fun surging through" me when I enter a party hotel.
But despite exhortations from the chairman (sorry, "animator") for more specifics, three hours of talking produced little detail on what should take the place of those stock villains, the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation, and how their replacements would be financed.
Mercifully, the banks ignored these exhortations: credit shrank last year.In short, Malaysia was in many ways well-prepared for the region's downturn.
