recommendative

Example Sentences

• "The coffee-urn or pot should have on its brightest face, and all the recommendative warmth of its nature — ready for a free outpouring; the cream or boiled milk should not lack heat, and, not "to waste its sweetness" on the unappreciating air, should be contained in a covered pitcher of tin or other metal; the sugar-basin, whether of the same as the other dishes, or of metal, should be bright and covered, with a large-sized tea or sugar-spoon beside it; the cups and saucers may be placed in heaps of three, within the circle of the sugar, slop, and cream vessels."
• "However, an epistemic inference could also be used in a recommendative or directive manner."
• "I cannot find that the average denizen of the Bowery seems to be greatly impressed by any oratorical or recommendative efforts which may proceed from me."
• "If our English youth were trained up a great deal more, than they are at present, in the noble art of oratory, and better instructed in the rules and laws of speaking and action, the ornament and recommendative of all discourse; why might they not become as good speakers, as ever Greece and Rome yet produced ?"
• "The right bank of the river is remarkably firm and good, and the left bank is not particularly bad; but the strongest recommendative in favor of the site is the abundance of stone — both of rubble and of blocks, almost completely dressed, which can be obtained from the old fort, opposite to and within a distance of three miles of the river bank at Alee."
• "I can only express my own gratification that our Committee was ready at this time to make that report and recommendative, and my earnest hope that the resolutions will be adopted."