Example Sentences
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“As a feminist, it’s a way of gently but didactically regendering the idea of a city, since men don’t produce eggs.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
Several missteps also hobble the play dramatically and didactically.
From Nature • Jan. 28, 2019
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
“You are distributing your weight incorrectly,” he told them didactically.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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