Its lead single, "Black Gold," is an exhortation aimed at African-American boys, calling up a cultural legacy that predates slavery.
Of course, the irony after this book's serialisation is that Cowell has never looked gayer, for all his faux-distress as having been revealed to have briefly had it off with Dannii Minogue (such a pink pound favourite that Popjustice once reviewed a single of hers with the exhortation: "Buy shares in amyl nitrate now").
In Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden lauded the song for its "strong, short-phrased melody whose lyrics are sheer exhortation", and declared the single "every bit as good as 'My Sweet Lord'".
In a single, pivotal scene, she delivers a seething exhortation to Leonardo DiCaprio's federal agent that mingles clear-eyed command and paranoiac reverie.
In his trademark firebrand style, LaPierre seized on a single phrase in the Obama speech – the president's exhortation that "we cannot mistake absolutism for principle" – and used it as a launching pad for a prolonged rant against Obama and his policies.
Levy and Reynolds got $173,700 and $71,800, respectively, for their Oppenheimer board duties last year, but Levy doesn't own a single share in the 31 funds he oversees, despite the SEC's exhortations that directors should invest in the funds they oversee.
— Glenn Collins The Awl: For the single, the lazy, the tight-fisted, the New Yorkers who simply don't cook: an exhortation to chuck the jarred pasta sauce and discover the ease of making your own, with the help of this sensible primer.
He certainly cannot avoid the spotlight of as many as 10 televised interviews in a single day, or a "Saturday Night Live" lampoon in which Darryl Hammond mimicked his public exhortations to "live your lives as normal, just be strong and just be vigilant, just be confident".
Act 1 of "Live at Roseland" concludes with "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," the biggest single from Beyoncé's last album, an exhortation inspired by her own newly established marital status.
The 256-page document — known as an apostolic exhortation and titled "Amoris Laetitia," Latin for "The Joy of Love" — calls for priests to welcome single parents, gay people and unmarried straight couples who are living together.
