didacticism
Americannoun
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Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Nor does this portrait have the didacticism of Sally Field’s portrayal in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 biopic, “Lincoln.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
The film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
Henry Arthur Jones has diversified his serious scenes with passages of sportive humour and he has freighted the piece with conventional didacticism as to the well-worn question of capital and labour.
From Shadows of the Stage by Winter, William
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