didacticism
Americannoun
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Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, “preachiness” — I’ll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
There’s nothing in “Make Believe” to indicate that when Mr. Barnett laments didacticism, he’s referring to a specific type of book or writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
This may have been the country neighbor who, we learn from Sainte-Beuve, pronounced Lamartine to be Fénelon without his didacticism, Rousseau without his sophistry, Mirabeau without his incendiary notions.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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