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I sometimes looked in vain for stacks of books along the walls that weren’t didactically aligned with state-ordained, “testable” proficiencies.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2021
Several missteps also hobble the play dramatically and didactically.
From Nature • Jan. 28, 2019
Autumn examines it aesthetically rather than didactically, through riffs on fairytale and fable, with Daniel showing Elisabeth how to tell “hospitable” stories that welcome in possibility rather than closing down other points of view.
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016
But shortly after that, Tóibín becomes a different writer, one who assumes his reader hasn’t encountered Bishop’s most famous poems and who walks through them slowly, didactically, alternating between excerpts and capsule summaries.
From Slate • Jul. 9, 2015
“You are distributing your weight incorrectly,” he told them didactically.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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