didacticism
Americannoun
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Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
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
Capturing that movement required a fusion of political didacticism, unabashed melodrama, stage supernaturalism and sitcom beats.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021
She poured them forth—little rushing streams of didacticism.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.
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