adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a didactic priest
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Kubrick made the movie with both didactic and creative intentions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he is too morally didactic to enjoy, as a biographer must, the complexities and ambiguities of his subject.
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And you can't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd, didactic behaviour.
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However, the didactic goal usually does irreparable harm to the characterization of the dramatis personae.
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The intellect, by the definition of consciousness, separates itself from the emotions; and didactic literature does the same.
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The play is didactic in tone and ethical in nature.
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These stories are more explicit and more didactic , probably because they are more self-consciously in-tended as correctives.
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They range from the pornographic to the didactic style of Open University programmes.
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This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young.