Example Sentences
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Several missteps also hobble the play dramatically and didactically.
From Nature • Jan. 28, 2019
It’s a move so timely and didactically on the nose that it permanently ripped me out of the fictive dream.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017
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
“Aloha” brings together two stories that connect only coincidentally but converge didactically.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 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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