didacticism

[dahy-dakt-i-siz-uhm]

noun

1. a tendency to be didactic; didactic character, tone, or style.

Example Sentences

The answer is not a sudden profusion of expressly political films; didacticism doesn’t win elections any more than it does the box office.

From Los Angeles Times

Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.

From Los Angeles Times

Nor does this portrait have the didacticism of Sally Field’s portrayal in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 biopic, “Lincoln.”

From New York Times

The least interesting section is “Cycles of Nature,” where Munch’s ideas — that the animate and inanimate are united in a single continuum whether by spirit or material — turn brainy, dissolving into narrative and didacticism.

From New York Times

A lesser artist might have contrived a tidier plot or affixed a more ringing lesson, but Bratton seems to be motivated less by didacticism than by curiosity.

From New York Times