Example Sentences
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Several missteps also hobble the play dramatically and didactically.
From Nature • Jan. 28, 2019
The show’s first scene, in particular, is didactically blunt in its discussion of women’s rights, or the lack thereof.
From New York Times • May 2, 2018
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
“It was a common punishment in Imperial China,” said O’Brien as didactically as ever.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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