In the opinion of many students, the professor's didactic approach was too heavy. From LearnThat.org.
I have no interest in didactic book, whatever its viewpoint. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: SF with an Opposing Viewpoint] Reference
I don't know if you're at all interested in American didactic fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of reading] Reference
Psalm, though more than usually didactic, is made the medium of both parts of devotion -- prayer and praise. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Here we have to deal with what are called didactic poems. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Ecclesiasticus are collections of what is called didactic or gnomic poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
And both are correct assessments of this film that can only be termed a didactic melodrama. From Wordnik.com. [CRITERION: SHOCK CORRIDOR | Obsessed With Film] Reference
Up to a certain point, they might correspond with the so-called didactic or objective material of the old methods. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
He has written two pieces, which may be called didactic or controversial poems -- "Religio Laici" and "The Hind and Panther.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
I don't really think either form the basis for a "didactic" text. From Wordnik.com. ["Crap, here comes Teacher!"] Reference
Chorley and almost everyone else, The Sceptic is not a "didactic" poem?. From Wordnik.com. ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference
There seems to be a "didactic" extreme and an "experimental" extreme in present approaches to the tales of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Vamsee Juluri: Mythology, Media and the Future of Hinduism] Reference
It's kind of didactic, but I've found that small children tend to like didactic books that relate to their own lives. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
He said he decided against making a "didactic" film that would showcase the issue of racism, concentrating instead on the human drama. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Nemesianus, with whom he vied in didactic poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
+ The term "didactic" as applied to poetry involves. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
That is the kind of didactic work which I earnestly recommend. From Wordnik.com. [To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work] Reference
Towards the end there is even an element of the 'didactic' here. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
Anyway, Kirk Honeycutt calls it "didactic" and "emotionally overblown," and has nothing to say about the performances. From Wordnik.com. [In Contention] Reference
This school loved to teach and to point out shortcomings, hence the terms "didactic" and "satiric" are often applied to it. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
Some authors wouldn’t be able to write any of this without making the book into some kind of didactic sermon. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
"I'm the most didactic modern politician in America.". From Wordnik.com. [President Newt?] Reference
As a result his speeches sound more didactic than they should. From Wordnik.com. [Rattling The Political Cage] Reference
But the didactic purpose is never lost sight of by the author. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
While some parts of the show are didactic, others are just fun. From Wordnik.com. [This Fair Could Flop] Reference
I was proud to have something to offer to the man's didactic speech. From Wordnik.com. [Vacation] Reference
Three threads are intertwined in Carnahan's unashamedly didactic script. From Wordnik.com. [Is This on the Exam?] Reference
She writes: There's a didactic side to static that gives everything away. From Wordnik.com. [The Baroness of the Perimeter] Reference
"Historical documentaries used to mean something boringly didactic," says Burns. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Reconstructed] Reference
Another delectable song for children -- also of a subtly didactic character -- is. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
I don't set out to preach and I would be upset if my novels were described as didactic. From Wordnik.com. [Once upon a life: David Nobbs] Reference
Schefer is a scholar, and his didactic purpose is plain enough, and well enough managed. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
This gentleman does not realise that there is a didactic purpose in the cause of his annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
But it must be judged as the earnest utterances of a poet, rather than a grave didactic treatise. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
What Olive and her circle can't face, they turn into art, and because that art is didactic, it's often considered children's art. From Wordnik.com. [The Children’s Hour] Reference
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