The didacticism expected in books for the young. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The didacticism of the 19th century gave birth to many great museums. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We are reticent for the same reason the You of the story is; didacticism is something to be suspicious of. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference
One obvious characteristic of this generation is the didacticism which is apt to worry us. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
How had this didacticism of his escaped Psychprobe?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship Who Sang]
His attacks on didacticism were especially valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
When you review a book, how do you judge the didacticism?. From Wordnik.com. [He says . . she says] Reference
But King, while capable of righteous anger, avoids didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [Life Off The Reservation] Reference
Potter soon abandoned her early work's hermetic didacticism, though. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome Back, Potter] Reference
But The Lottery sparks outrage quietly, and without a hint of didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Even Superman Can't Save Us] Reference
Goodbye to deference, didacticism, ego, and complacency in a heartless world. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2008 « Bill Ayers] Reference
Le Carre has taken heat lately for allowing didacticism to invade his fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Enigmatic Face of Terror] Reference
Next door at the documenta-Halle, political didacticism reaches a fever pitch. From Wordnik.com. [A County Fair For Intellectuals] Reference
But it was Landor who, taking a hint perhaps from Milton's unadorned didacticism of. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
For didacticism was rampant: poetry had its only raison d'être as pleasant teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Which can be a drag - certain spans of dry didacticism leave me unmoved, un-anythinged. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
He also avoided the trap of didacticism, which often mars attempts to tell these stories. From Wordnik.com. [Maia Szalavitz: Must-See Indy Film Exposes Tough Love, First Hand] Reference
Harmony and counterpoint gleam, with no aural smudges and not a jot of bookish didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [Brahms: Symphony No 4, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner] Reference
Though the author never rejected such products outright, he frowned upon their didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [That's Edutainment] Reference
If that's true, (and it would totally serve me right if it's not) then is that didacticism?. From Wordnik.com. ["Crap, here comes Teacher!"] Reference
In twentieth-century criticism, didacticism has, however, been antithetical to the literary. From Wordnik.com. ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference
Human scientists, though, were a different matter, for pathuns definitely leaned toward didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
(There was a little heavy handed didacticism at moments, but I find it easy enough to forgive that.). From Wordnik.com. [A Pretty Good Week.] Reference
Or is the divide between didacticism that is currently accepted vs. didacticism you think is misguided?. From Wordnik.com. [He says . . she says] Reference
Anonymous said ... so, Roger, what then is didacticism? only instruction that is obvious to the reader?. From Wordnik.com. ["Crap, here comes Teacher!"] Reference
Truthfully, he most often made all of us miserable with his bombastic approach and hard core didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January « Becca’s Byline] Reference
I might check it out; I have to admit I prefer old-fashioned didacticism to “experimental” prose myself. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Tales «] Reference
The only legitimate purpose of the short story is to amuse, and didacticism in literature is always inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
PBS-TV is playing a series entitled The Blues, which cleverly avoids the didacticism of other historical programs. From Wordnik.com. [View from the Northern Border] Reference
It early lost favor because of its bald didacticism, and for the last century has been practiced only occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Similarly, the moral didacticism of earlier boys 'stories was giving way to fatherless worlds of adventure and fun. From Wordnik.com. [Man and Sillyman] Reference
It is this intensity of vision that gives his poetry, with all its moralising and didacticism, its unforgettable qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Is subtle didacticism better or worse than the heavy handed? is insidious didacticism okay if it's on the side of the angels?. From Wordnik.com. [He says . . she says] Reference
The didacticism is, for the most part, gracefully meshed with the storytelling, and the special effects never take over the show. From Wordnik.com. [A Kid Finds His Inner Adult] Reference
Behind Lillian Hellman's plays there is a torn spirit: the bright stuffs of expensive productions and the hair-shirt of didacticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Foxes Revived] Reference
The "aesthetically naive" and the "excessively didactic" are corrupt when their naiveté and didacticism have an ideological purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism and Literature: An Exchange] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
In a similar vein, they reject the claims of didacticism, refusing to acknowledge that their art should proclaim any moral truths or lessons. From Wordnik.com. [ART FOR ART'S SAKE] Reference
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