didacticism
Americannoun
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The film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022
He’s too rigorous a thinker to fall back on facile antagonisms between art and commerce, and too generous an entertainer to saddle a zigzagging shaggy-dog story with didacticism.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
Still, in trying to use purely theatrical means to avoid the traps of didacticism that so many well-intentioned plays fall into, “The Minutes” instead falls into the trap of bad taste.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2022
So even if Novic and Fell tilt toward didacticism, it’s for good reason.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
If it be saddled with didacticism or tailed with a moral, it ceases to be a story and becomes an argument; when it no longer concerns us.
From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond
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