51�Թ�

“Comedy Punks” is in some ways a typical hortatory rise-and-fall-and-rise promotional narrative.

The tendency in David’s editing process is almost always to the hortatory.

His preferred medium was Twitter, where his 280-characters-at-a-time rhetoric was a study in hortatory rather than oratory.

There was something soothing about listening to two hours of Supreme Court arguments Tuesday, as the justices distinguished the “hortatory” from the merely “precatory” and traded hypotheticals about lawn-mowing, tree-planting and war bonds.

“My Administration will treat this provision as hortatory but not mandatory,” his signing statement says.