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Didactic meaning
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. | Excessively moralizing. | Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
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It is a complex cascade of points, worthy of its space in the play and handled with an emotional rawness by a fantastic Benhamou that leaves you breathing hard with stuttered affirmation, even if it feels somewhat forced and unnaturally didactic.
Kapadia sees “All We Imagine as Light” as a political statement, too, though it avoids being didactic.
We’ll learn, mostly in jest, that 21 years from now, the salmon are gone and no one is allowed to have three kids, but Older Elliott’s knowledge of the future doesn’t bleed into a tangible, didactic dystopia.
I don’t just want to disseminate didactic information.
In the first decade following its launch in 1946, three years before the establishment of the PRC, uses of “speaking politics” in the were largely didactic, having to do with political instruction.
Isn’t the problem with much of Christian art today that it’s too didactic: Christian movies that are little more than sermons with a plot slapped onto them?
The period of instruction includes interpersonal relations groups, didactic seminars, clinical presentation seminars, course reading, and individual supervision.
Avoid controversial discussions about politics, religion and racial issues because they will become heavy-handed and didactic.
He is said to be the bestselling poet in the U.S. Sometimes didactic, sometimes mystical, his lyric poetry earns praise for its fervor, energy, and passion.
I find that that these inclinations shape their political information preferences — preferences for didactic, morally serious, threat-oriented content that leaves very little doubt about what viewers should be worried about and who is to blame.
I try not to be didactic,” the France-based artist says.
The speaker’s crisp, faintly didactic style leaves us in no doubt of the subtext.
When not mining family strife and adventurous mishaps for comedy, the show employs a delightfully didactic mode.
Joe is a didactic atheist, but Roberta () finds herself unexpectedly moved by a hymn she used to sing as a child.
This didactic jeremiad serves to caution the critic that given the multi-dimensionality of thought we can only see a portion of the truth at any point in time and hence can not be “completely Right.
A close analysis of the alterations which Edgeworth's style underwent when it was pressed into the service of overt didacticism should serve to illuminate the relationship between prose technique and didactic purpose in her work.
Conte, G. p. 343 Medicamina Faciei Femineae ("Women's Facial Cosmetics") main About a hundred elegiac lines survive from this poem on beauty treatments for women's faces, which seems to parody serious didactic poetry.
Erlewine praised the music and claims the album "doesn't mark an isolationist retreat into didactic, defiantly underground punk rock".
Family friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley had great faith in Potter's tale, recast it in didactic verse, and made the rounds of the London publishing houses.
Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (Heinemann, London 1985) Anthony Burgess, p 205 Burgess has also dismissed A Clockwork Orange as "too didactic to be artistic".