didacticism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Still, in trying to use purely theatrical means to avoid the traps of didacticism that so many well-intentioned plays fall into, “The Minutes” instead falls into the trap of bad taste.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2022
So even if Novic and Fell tilt toward didacticism, it’s for good reason.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
“People are resistant to didacticism, and disaster is a spectacle — the genre is so established it puts a barrier between you and the consequences,” she said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021
The playwright colors the didacticism of Hogarth's prints with music and farce, yet underscores it by adding Virtue and Vice and the melodrama of Rakewell's suicide and Sarah's probable death.
From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous
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