| 单词 | didactic |
| 例句 | Then he continued with his discussion in the same didactic tone as before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way to the base Colonel Meecham announced to his sons in a calm, didactic voice that they were both in critical need of a haircut. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn’t sell. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Where to Invade Next,” is a sprawling, didactic polemic wittily disguised as a European travelogue. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z These didactic interruptions feel superfluous and, feature annoyingly glib show business patter. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z He creates some didactic moments, as when the dozen skull tattoos lining Deeks’s legs are explained as one for each “kill.” “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It may sound preachy, but Morris is never didactic as he hilariously details Sir Gawain's adventures with the giant Green Knight. 'Bigger Than a Bread Box' among tasty new novels for kids 2011-11-26T03:03:45Z But its final section turns muddled and didactic, its poeticism forced. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The less explicit, the less didactic, the less polemic—the more such art is likely to strike the eye memorably, and to linger in the mind like a visual riddle. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z That we’re having an emotional and aesthetic experience, not a didactic one. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z That isn’t the story told in this exhibition, which is explanatory and didactic in a good way. Review | How to look at African art? Slowly and impressionistically. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z As part of the Joyce Theater’s offsite series, Joyce Unleashed, it shared a bill with Hillel Kogan’s hilarious parody of didactic art, “We Love Arabs.” Review: The Joyce Unleashed Series, With a Middle Eastern Flavor 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “Jagat” is on the earnest and didactic side, but Mr. Perumal exhibits some assurance in his directing debut and gets a winning performance by Mr. Raj. New York Asian Film Festival Is Having a Southeast Asian Moment 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Also covering child marriage, bonded servitude and plain old patriarchal vetoing, “Girl Rising” is didactic in arguing the need for more educational opportunity and its wide-ranging effects. ‘Girl Rising’: a lesson in the power of education 2013-04-11T20:37:18Z "The story is politically informed, but not didactic in any way, and that was deliberate." 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z “Martin Eden” is an autobiographical artist’s novel — “I was Martin Eden,” London later wrote — and a didactic one. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z From the Welsh Assembly to the Bordeaux Law Courts, his public buildings are conceived as didactic, often idealistic, diagrams of how he thinks the world should be. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z When the politics becomes too didactic, the art ceases to be artful. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z But as pictures, they are in no way didactic. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z And Mr. Hall’s reverential adaptation cherishes the original screenplay’s sputtering, didactic spiels. Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z That earlier book also did a more eloquent — and less didactic — job of showing how racial hatred and a history of injustice can reverberate for generations within a community. Books of The Times: ‘The Round House,’ Louise Erdrich’s New Novel 2012-10-15T18:58:07Z What began in 1966 with a little-seen television series that was often didactic and deliberately paced has endured as a cultural institution, even as its fortunes have risen and fallen over the years. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z So she is knowledgeable, but not didactic or technical. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Tóibín would probably cringe at the idea, but there’s something implicitly didactic about this novel: Its barely undulating plot and exactingly modulated tone serve as a kind of guide to living without excess drama. Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: A masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself I'm probably more didactic in nature than I am a narrative writer, but she's an editor for a great reason. "Being busy all the time is not healthy": Ban.do founder wants to change the narrative about success 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z His attempt to palliate the effect of this didactic approach was to create big stories for his characters. 'When the Killing's Done': T.C. Boyle's novel of a California war over invasive species 2011-02-24T00:04:04Z I’m not thinking of a didactic, moralising literature. Elena Ferrante: A writer’s talent is like a fishing net, catching daily experiences that can educate 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z They can be “didactic, crass or plain boring,” he writes. Books of The Times: Sing It Loud: Changing the World With a Song 2011-04-28T16:23:27Z Painters who’d been trained in Christian iconography like Goya said, “There are no rules,” and didactic traditions about how the Christian story should be told began to be challenged. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z Becoming a parent unleashed in me a strong didactic streak, which I can’t always suppress just because I have nothing of value to impart. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z But the American Symphony is still around, again playing at Carnegie Hall, with a focus on less frequently performed works and a didactic mission. ArtsBeat: The American Symphony, at 50, Harks Back to Stokowski 2012-06-14T19:28:08Z “I didn’t want it to be didactic, and it was really nice to have somebody say, ‘Oh, I got elements of that,’” he said. The Carpetbagger: Will We Be Calling It the ’12 Years’ Effect? 2014-03-04T16:55:26Z The first video “Tacky” was a parody of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” and the second one was a didactic yet hilarious parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” “Weird Al” lampoons sports fans in latest hilarious video for “Sports Song” 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The pressure to be morally didactic is not always external; most writers of teen fiction – including those whose material is grotesquerie and horror – have a pastoral instinct. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z There’s often a confusing, disjunctive quality to it, especially where contemporary art is concerned, as the museum’s programming lurches from crowd-drawing, performance-art spectacles in the atrium to relatively dry and didactic exhibitions in its galleries. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z These sections, created by the fine playwright Eisa Davis, came across as didactic. ‘Trade Practices,’ a Collaborative Show With Funny Money 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Gioia's review of Flamingo Watching compared her "strongly compressed", "magnificently didactic" work to Emily Dickinson's, and to the essays of the French Enlightenment. Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z Her narrations, informative and interesting and conversational without being overly didactic, provided context and a guide to a tradition that I imagine was not familiar even to some of the Chinese members of the audience. Review | Three centuries old, a band finally plays D.C. 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z When the mother speaks, her style is bracingly didactic. Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z But Sand Storm avoids the trap of being a simple, didactic and depressing look at systemic injustice. My streaming gem: why you should watch Sand Storm 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z In the hands of Mr. Pennebaker and his ilk, documentary films, once didactic, stuffy affairs, pulled the viewer into the action, an approach known as cinéma vérité. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Though the didactic conceit may soon wear thin, it felt as if these women had a lot more to say. | 'The River Crosses Rivers II' : Ensemble Studio Theater Presents Microplays - Review 2011-09-27T22:15:44Z That is tougher than it might seem: The story tackles issues of familial expectations, race, class, agency and environmental justice without being either didactic or simplistic. Saving Birds by Ruffling Some Feathers 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Sometimes, however, Ekelund’s prose becomes didactic in urging readers to walk more, and he occasionally makes sweeping generalizations that don’t entirely ring true to fit a conclusion he’s already come to. Review | ‘In Praise of Paths’ reminds us of the incredible power of the simple outdoor walk 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Demange and writer Gregory Burke don’t try to drive home some didactic point about the history of imperialism and colonialism, but that lesson is present in every frame of “’71.” Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But I didn't want it to be a didactic history lesson for the reader. Q&A: Jessie Burton 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Without someone as expressive as Ms. Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” might not pull off its balancing acts: to be morally urgent but not didactic, harrowing but with flickers of hope and grace. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Some critics found it dour and didactic and some audiences apparently found its sadness off-putting. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But, Scott wrote, the movie “conducts its business with brisk, breezy irreverence. It’s a didactic comedy, an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘Modern Love’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Still, I found that it was a bit too didactic and maybe too accepting. Building Type: Keith Krumwiede's satirical jolt for the earnest world of architecture publishing 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But it’s more precise to say that he always wanted to challenge what people expected contemporary music to sound like, elevated the popular discourse without being didactic or inaccessible. A David Bowie for every mood: From “Space Oddity” to his farewell “Blackstar,” Bowie’s shape-shifting always felt right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z So it is a measure of Koon's theatrical skill, and the Mirror Stage company's thoughtful staging, that the West Coast premiere of "Odin's Horse" at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre is not dry and didactic. 'Odin's Horse' skillfully weaves together big trees, big questions — and Nordic myth 2012-10-26T22:22:07Z But in trying to ground its personal stories in hard science, “Extrapolations” turns its characters into didactic sandwich boards. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The film's didactic indifference also makes it unclear whether Stephen ups the ante or gets his comeuppance in the end. Joseph Losey's restored 'Accident' high on shock value 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Plus, it was comedy that presented Chicano culture to a broad audience in a way that was never didactic or self-conscious. Cheech Marin, a singular Renaissance man, talks about comedy, pottery, pot, art and his new memoir 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Accordingly, “Michael,” Malleson’s adaptation of “What Men Live By,” is a lot more didactic, a riff on “The Elves and the Shoemaker” shot through with Christian mysticism. Review: Chekhov and Tolstoy Reunited in ‘Love Stories’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z But as in her previous plays, including “Intimate Apparel” and “Ruined,” Ms. Nottage nimbly avoids the didactic in her exploration of the fallout from the collapse of manufacturing. Black Female Playwrights Want You to Face Facts. The Harsh Ones. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z A two-and-a-half-hour opera whose action is symbolic and whose purpose is loftily didactic, in which the dramatic pulse beats rather slowly and sometimes vanishes altogether, can be tough going at times. The Pilgrim's Progress – review 2012-11-06T17:51:52Z The didactic information usefully explains how the era came to associate fashion with the idea of being a woman — a very contemporary idea. Gems of Paris' Mus?e d'Orsay in Vancouver, B.C. 2010-07-28T21:54:00Z They were concerned with the struggle — the burden — of being black in America, and often presented information in a way that was didactic and, well, boring. I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Free from much of the cosmological and didactic trappings of those books, this is a terrific, suspense-filled adventure that is nigh impossible to switch off. Review | ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ may be a dud movie, but it’s a fantastic audiobook 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The novel does not shy away from grappling with America’s history of oppression, but never veers into the didactic. The Teenage Ghosts in Laura Ruby’s National Book Award Finalist Never Sleep 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z They are meant to be restorative and instructive, without veering too didactic. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It's an old-fashioned left-wing European artist's puckish vision of new media, and it's exactly as exasperating, didactic, gorgeous and brilliant as that sounds. Cannes: Godard, still alive and still baffling 2010-05-18T15:30:00Z Highlighting its lessons makes the opera seem didactic, while Brecht and Weill’s essential masterpiece is anything but. Music Review: ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ at Manhattan School 2013-04-25T21:26:01Z Who or what that is remains open; didactic is not Mr. Brown’s style. Review: Malpaso, Like the Familiar Comfort of an Old Sweater 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The Work of Being First, Expectations Attached It makes a kind of sense to take a didactic approach to a story about education. | 'Freed': In ?Freed,? Being the First, Expectations Attached 2010-06-21T22:40:00Z There was no hint here of a historically-informed ensemble making a didactic point. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But Malevich’s dogmatism about abstract art also confirms that Mr. Mitta’s actors will primarily function as didactic representatives of certain viewpoints. Review: In ‘Chagall-Malevich,’ Two Painters Clash in Revolutionary Russia 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The film, written by James Graham and directed by Toby Haynes, is itself a thumping stamp, relying heavily on eureka moments and didactic scenes. Review: ‘Brexit’ Offers an Unsubtle Preview of Coming Elections 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Although The Promise is insufferably didactic, no one mentions the Balfour declaration. The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation 2011-03-04T14:40:36Z "One of the things that museums sometimes get wrong is that they offer too much didactic information." Unwrap a mummy, share your art: the digital innovations seven L.A. museums are most excited about 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Despite a few didactic lines of dialogue about Danish drinking culture, “Another Round” mostly shimmies its way out of moral or social questions. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Walton takes no didactic stance on Britain's right to impose its rule on a quarter of the world, he takes imperium as fact and calls it "the greatest empire in world history" – forget Rome. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z Oddly, the term appears nowhere among the show’s didactic materials, including the catalog. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Alas, the seams are showing in this didactic effort. Review: ‘Good Muslim’ Highlights a Mixed Bag of One-Acts 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Clearly, his movements were for show, almost didactic. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He was an academic classicist, a poet and a didactic aesthete. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Avoiding a dry, didactic approach, Tiffany and colleagues used a variety of techniques to capture the Black Watch over time. ‘Black Watch,’ hailed tale of war, coming to Seattle’s Paramount 2013-04-17T19:09:22Z The first episode, “Golden Days for Boys and Girls,” is elegantly constructed; it takes its name from a morally didactic periodical for children, yet it shows Nucky’s education in exactly the opposite principles. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z These didactic interludes, often marked off as separate chapters, provide a charming, informative guide; the pages breathe easily, cleverly composed and uncluttered. Graphic Novels That Will Diagnose Your Disease 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z But the photographs shared from MetroTech Commons generally lacked the didactic nature of the sculptures that hang throughout the park. Instagram’s Mark on Public Art 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Of all things to be didactic about, I said — totalitarianism. The Century-Old Russian Novel Said to Have Inspired ‘1984’ 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z This may be gently didactic for readers with no gardening background. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z I attended a workshop performance at the New School in January; in its current form, the work is meditative yet direct, informative without being didactic. Was Yuja Wang’s Concert Satirical or Offensive? It’s Complicated 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z While Kurdi’s book has its own didactic moments, the story succeeds by eschewing the impersonal language of good intentions for something more visceral. Review | After a photo of her nephew’s drowned body went viral, a Syrian woman tells the family’s story 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “I was about 7 years old when I heard this story at school, which was presented to us as something didactic, as if Tyll is showing people their folly,” Kehlmann says. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z “Stop the Pounding Heart” transcends both the red state-blue state split and limited, didactic ideas of cinematic realism. ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ Reveals Minervini’s Texas 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Gervais’s show may be even more morally didactic; it has a sentimental, even maudlin streak that has become all the more pronounced in his later comedies, like “After Life.” How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Often bombastic and didactic, it enters greatness in the last 30 minutes. Bernardo Bertolucci obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z There’s a way of addressing this territory that could be chippy and didactic, but Ansari is too alive to the comic possibilities to go down that route. Aziz Ansari: ‘Being funny is like having a superpower’ 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Sharing bleak information about climate change without being didactic has become a specialty for the artist, who now lives in Pasadena, closer to the San Gabriel Mountains. Kim Abeles Turns the Climate Crisis Into Eco-art 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But these moments, like much of "Stardust" are didactic. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z I remember when I was his age I didn’t like it when people would sort of be didactic with me. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Becoming Bruce Willis and Time-Traveling to Meet His Future Self 2012-09-26T12:00:47Z It is didactic in the extreme, motivated by an overwhelming desire to stop people drinking, and to rescue mankind from its own, basest urges. Steve Bell on The Worship of Bacchus by George Cruikshank 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Now we need version 4.0, in which we must all be more pragmatic, more watchful, more engaged, less didactic, less blinkered, less wedded to theories that can't always work. Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z City Boy has an argument, but it is didactic rather than polemical, a poem that takes no sides and draws no lines. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z But the sparkling veneer of this respectful production hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z “Gentefied” has a lot to say, and it can turn didactic in its urge to say all of it. ‘Gentefied’ Review: A Rent Is Too Damn High Party 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And it’s one of the things that you can explore in fiction without being didactic or presumptuous about another person’s specific experience. Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence,’ ‘Westworld’ and the Lure of Techno-Noir 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z What emerges is a story as didactic as it is brave. A Debut Novel Probes the Difficult Lives of Arab-American Women 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z There’s nothing didactic; there’s no explanation or answer. Julie Mehretu on Her Influences, Auction Pressure and New Paintings 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else. I, Malvolio: bringing Shakespeare to life for young audiences 2011-08-16T09:15:01Z “But I don’t want to be didactic. I like ambiguity. I want a world of possibilities suggested by the music.” Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z He may have had a different job, but more important, he had Cosby’s sensibility and sense of didactic purpose. So What Do We Do About 'The Cosby Show'? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In “The Rodin Project,” performed at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday evening, the effect is more aimless and impressionistic than didactic. Dance Review: Russell Maliphant’s ‘Rodin Project’ at the Joyce 2012-12-07T20:43:01Z “Things for the waist are at waist height; things for the chest are at chest height. We wanted this first gallery to be an experience rather than a didactic look at jewelry.” How Jewelry Makes Us Who We Are 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Knowledge of bees and beekeeping is worked so naturally into the story that it never becomes didactic. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z But what saves both pieces from looking didactic is the hands. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z While the absurdity of substituting goats for every kind of tradable commodity is initially humorous, the satire takes an increasingly didactic turn. The Great Goat Bubble – review 2012-07-19T17:30:02Z “Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments” is an entertaining, sometimes poetic and unapologetically didactic concoction made up of song, science lectures and demonstrations. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z “Jerusalem Freestyle” and “Nirvana in Gaza” were politically stirring rap tracks that leaned toward the didactic. For Saint Levant, Sexy Music Is Personal, and Political 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Her dramas are at once painterly and playful, poetic and political, didactic and open-minded, emotionally grounded and stylistically oblique. In 'The Conduct of Life,' witness an American classic that's more often taught than staged 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Thome asks near the end of her segment, one that represents “A Dozen Dreams” at its best: whimsical yet still grounded, reflective without being didactic. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The collective wanted to show that “there were different ways of making Black cinema, that were not just didactic or angry, but could be more poetic, more reflective, more meditative,” Lawson said. An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z And you know what it is when you get anything that's being too didactic, and saying only this and never that, it's a problem. Melissa Leo’s masterclass in method acting: “There’s not one way” 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet they also stir lots of emotions in a production that’s full of passion, at least until it turns overly didactic. | 'One-Third of a Nation': A Depression-Era Protest Ripped From the Headlines 2011-05-01T21:19:13Z The source material may be hopelessly schematic, but the show pours on dazzling trimmings, including a critical element absent in Rand’s didactic prose: humor. A Spoofy Spin on Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Alexei's style is never didactic, nor harsh, relying instead on strong and believable characters that change your worldview as they transform theirs. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z “It’s tricky enough to accurately depict history without seeming didactic or corny,” he explains. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Rothko was known to be a man of fierce opinions and didactic conversation, attributes that Mr. Logan latches onto gratefully and fruitfully. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z The show’s didactic moral universe lost me in season 2, as a litany of capital-G Good prisoners are put through hell by various nemeses. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The playwright’s work, often criticized as didactic, fell from fashion by the 1970s. Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The “literature establishment” in Indonesia tends to take “a didactic approach” to books, he said, which may explain why “Beauty Is a Wound” was not well received when it was first published, in 2002. A Writer’s Haunting Trip Through the Horrors of Indonesian History 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z How much is necessary to include before it's didactic. "Waikiki" filmmaker: "Hawai'i is marketed as a paradise . . . but things are only getting worse" 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Nor has he been politically didactic, preferring the approach of Dadaists like Hugo Ball, who provided the lyrics for “I Zimbra,” “using nonsense to make sense of a world that didn’t make sense.” ‘The West Wing’ and David Byrne Stage America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to be didactic about class,” he said. A Return to Southie, by Way of Broadway 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z The title of the “Domestic Breviary” is borrowed from Lutheran and Catholic manuals, with Brecht’s didactic energy turned toward exposing a world in which human suffering is man-made and unredeemed. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Her film gently zeros in on the patriarchal trappings of her family but never flattens her loved ones into didactic archetypes; her patient, affectionate gaze captures them in all their complexity. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.” Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z A plot twist involving Nora’s mother leads to an overwritten, didactic monologue. Review: A Bad Romance with Operatic Overtones in ‘Dido of Idaho’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Min is nothing if not didactic, lecturing to the point of hectoring the reader. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z “It is tempting to seek a moral in the end. … But Hunt isn’t that predictable or didactic,” Eowyn Ivey writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z His films don’t display a naïve belief in a virtuous world but, rather, a symbolic and didactic orientation toward one particular outcome. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Proudly propagandistic, “Church & State,” a new play at the Skylight that runs in tandem with “Obama-ology,” another premiere, offers a didactic political message in the theatrical tradition of “Waiting for Lefty.” Gun control takes center stage in new L.A. play 'Church & State' 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Hence the series’ secure embrace of moral philosophy remains accessible and pointed, but never didactic. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z It's the blandly didactic product of priggish, literal, two-dimensional thinking. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z May her praises be intergalactic; Yes, extol her in phrases didactic! Style Invitational Week 1336: Two ways about it — a double-entendre contest 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z As much as this is a novel of big ideas, "The Harder They Come" never feels didactic, partly because Boyle doesn't let up on the accelerator. T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Neither act is especially didactic about Tuskegee, however. Tuskegee project to set the record straight on dance music 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “We are trying to transmit the didactic part of the wine without being boring,” the 45-year-old wine expert says with a wide smile. Banca del Vino celebrates Italian winemaking by honoring time and place 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z TV comics like Bee, Colbert, Oliver and Seth Myers, host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” have been so hard-hitting that their material sometimes “comes close to being didactic, and not cheerful,” Young said. Trump's White House: a gift or a curse for TV comics? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The mix of documentary film, live performance and call to activism worked unexpectedly well, maintaining a delicate balance between didactic drive and meditative awe. Review: ‘The Colorado,’ a Music-Driven Eco-Documentary 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z What could’ve been didactic instead becomes an enchanting ramble through the myths and mundanities of womanhood. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Not that this “Sunday,” presented in an earlier version at New York City Center last year, is in any way didactic or issue-driven. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z And I don’t like didactic art generally, only because it’s false, because reality is not didactic. Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z But when you make an episode as didactic, as righteous, as sanctimonious as this, you own what it preaches. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z It is least interesting at its most didactic. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The wordiest of the four books also skirts closest to the didactic edge. Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.” Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Though the script tilts to the didactic, the performances are absolutely delicious, with Mr. Meaney droll and understated and Mr. Spall fiery and derisive, yet not above a joke. Review: Car-Pooling to End Ireland’s Troubles in ‘The Journey’ 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The creators of the new shows said that they sought to avoid trivializing their subjects or being didactic, saccharine or overwhelming, and to inject some humor. New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z Balzac, one of the fathers of literary realism, was a pioneer of what a later century would call the systems novel, and his explanatory zeal, far from didactic, is almost always delightful. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z We are not trying to be didactic about it. Beyond "The Staircase": What happens when the documentary ends with subjects "left with the bill"? 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But these Festival Hall programmes seem to be as much about reflecting on the career of one of the greatest pianists of our time as they are intentionally didactic. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-01-30T18:15:05Z An idiosyncrasy of the book is Gorman’s fondness for didactic digressions. An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “It’s not didactic or propagandistic in its approach, but it’s honest. It makes you want to know more. It makes you want to get involved.” ‘House of Cards’ writer turns attention to violence against women 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z To those impacted in a real way by these issues or savvy enough to recognize when they're being used as mechanisms to impart a sense of relevance, they come across as didactic nonsense. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Both are on view, aptly enough, alas, in “Escuela,” a dull, didactic drama written and directed by the noted Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón. Review: From Chile, ‘Escuela,’ a Drama About Education 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z But despite the film's assemblage of talent and noble intentions, many reviews say "Tomorrowland" is uneven in its storytelling and overly didactic. 'Tomorrowland' is no utopia, reviews say 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Even writers whose work was distinctly moral and didactic in the Christian manner could be condemned by the church. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z But there’s no need at all for that process to be didactic or polemical in the way that you’re describing. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z But the dialogue can take on the stilted, didactic feel of a school play. Better than Bryan Cranston? Star of South Coast Rep's 'All the Way' delivers a most convincing LBJ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Even on those series, though, there is a tendency to be didactic about the Internet—and a related tendency to reflect online life with a fun-house mirror, to make it ominous and overblown. The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Masur was never didactic; there was no sense of a conductor showing us the way that this theme hangs together. Music Review: Kurt Masur as a Philharmonic Guest Conductor 2010-05-13T20:30:00Z Here it is: the dreaded "moral," in which all of Dickens' didactic chickens come home to roost. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z What results is a forceful political art, best described as empathetic rather than didactic in its method, and stylistically closer to Minimalism than to broadsides. Review: Doris Salcedo’s Forceful Political Art in Guggenheim Retrospective 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Trinity-wise, that counts as the son story, and while it’s didactic, it is the least opaque of the bunch. Review: In the Din of ‘Clover,’ Voices of Loss, Hope and Emmett Till 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The essential didactic task, Bellow implies, is to instill the readerly habits of enthusiasm, gratitude and awe. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Yet her script is direct to the point of didactic, offering only surface-level insight into an event that understandably traumatized her family. ‘When It Happens to You’ Review: A Daughter’s Rape, a Mother’s Anguish 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The series turns almost didactic at times, but for a reason. | 'Treme': David Simon?s New HBO Series: After Katrina 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z Sometimes the gimmick registers as didactic or as mere showing off. Theater Review: ‘The Last Will,’ by Robert Brustein, at Abingdon Theater 2013-04-21T20:40:34Z The deck is clearly stacked — it makes “Oleanna” look fair and balanced — but the play’s right-of-center politics are no more didactic than its liberal counterparts and even hint at complexity. Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now 2010-03-11T05:34:00Z This “War of the Worlds” never becomes overtly didactic on this point, preferring to let the question linger in the air. Review: A ‘Fake News’ Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z And without a whiff of the didactic, but with a bounty of sly black humor, the piece expressed the psychic toll of moral and financial recession. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z A legitimately funny point was being made there, something about the naturally didactic and edifying urges of the Marsalis family. Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words 2010-08-31T22:25:00Z Even more worrisome is the stated goal of abandoning the didactic function. Review | The new MoMA is a lot bigger. But you may not learn as much about the art. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Lupe Fiasco is a stern and didactic teacher, but it’s arguable that Chief Keef’s music is far better at ringing warning bells. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z Coates dives into this question, and while open letters often feel didactic, his elegiac prose and deep curiosity allow his book to continually open up to meaning. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z And so wars — or rather how not to lose them — are the general theme of his often didactic book. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Her approach is primarily psychological rather than didactic, however, and the whole thing is a feelgood treat, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. L'Isola Disabitata ? review 2010-10-27T22:29:00Z That might truly revolutionize our understanding of this quiet, slightly didactic master. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps some critics of Israel yearn for a didactic political message in a movie that means to be entirely experiential -- not to mention in a geopolitical situation notably lacking in clear moral answers. Israel's "Lebanon generation" -- in the movies 2010-08-07T01:01:00Z It could have been hectoring and didactic, or earnestly intended anarchy. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “Enemies,” premiering Sunday at 8 p.m., cannot help but feel cooler and more didactic in comparison to A&E’s “The Clinton Affair,” debuting the same night, also executive produced by Gibney. The jagged hindsight of “The Clinton Affair”: 20 years later, it looks like a different story 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But the impression it leaves is didactic, a saints and demons fable that meanders to foregone conclusions. ‘The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: Reclaiming the Australian Frontier 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z When that becomes apparent, more than halfway through the performance, the play takes a turn for the didactic. Review: A Bus Crash, a Breakup and More Reverberations in ‘Tremor’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “American Factory” is political without being self-servingly didactic or strident, connecting the sociopolitical dots intelligently, sometimes with the help of a stirring score from Chad Cannon that evokes Aaron Copland. ‘American Factory’ Review: The New Global Haves and Have-Nots 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s a didactic, triumphal and, ultimately, forgettable speech. Congratulations, by the way: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and fighting the TED Talks-ization of commencement speeches 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z Those whose work was never political or didactic are apprehensive about being framed as black artists, rather than as just artists. Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z “Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World” at the British Museum until July 17, before moving on to New York, is one of those, judging from the pedestrian didactic display. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z Jill Manton, director of public art trust and special initiatives for the San Francisco Arts Commission, praised it for being neither didactic nor formulaic. When Art Comes Along for the Ride 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Content is didactic; the creative part lies in how efficiently and effectively it’s delivered. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z You're trying to entertain the audience and it's not about creating didactic stories. Pow! Boom! Why DC relaunched iconic comic books 2011-09-02T21:20:00Z It’s an album that is didactic as it is diverse, showing an artist trying to make a place for himself in a quickly changing industry with ever-evolving taste. Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience 2013-06-19T16:29:21Z For those who prefer more didactic morality tales, it was probably a pretty troubling depiction. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z More recent Geologic rhymes suggest a less didactic future for Blue Scholars. A big three days for Blue Scholars 2010-03-29T20:46:00Z His voice is instructive but not didactic; opinionated but not at all polemical — in fact, anti-polemical. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z That Ms. Farber overstates the didactic is more evident here than in the previous production I saw. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The setup yielded musical numbers that were understandably solemn but rarely ever energetic or surprising, and as didactic as a Sunday school parable. 'Glee': You've Got to Have Faith (Unless You Don't Want To) 2010-10-06T13:19:00Z “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s poetic triptych of queer black manhood in the slums of Miami, isn’t didactic; it simply breathes in the fears and desires of its hero, Chiron, and asks us to taste his oxygen. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But it was never didactic, remaining as ambiguous as Britten’s sliding, diaphanous music, conducted by Leo Hussain. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z You don’t want a show with a story that feels squeezed into the frame of our present in a way that’s too obvious or didactic, which was a problem with both “Suffs” and “Paradise Square.” Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “We’ve been experimenting with asking questions,” Mr. Monroe said, as opposed to “didactic written labels,” which he said “don’t stimulate people to interrogate works of art on their own.” How to Get the Brain to Like Art 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The debates are not soft-pedalled, yet Barker's targets, neatly pleated together, are sufficiently varied for the drama not to seem narrowly didactic. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z Something similar happens in “Pomegranate,” when the text gets didactic and the humanity bleeds away. Review: ‘Fruit Trilogy,’ Eve Ensler’s New Show, Brims With Outrage 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z She is also impressed by the artist’s use of aesthetic techniques to get at these stories in a way that isn’t overly didactic. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z So we really go out of our way to avoid being too didactic. "Last Chance U" director on Coach Beam's "Yoda-like" wisdom & the Oakland team's sacrifices 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The Newsroom is a didactic show, by which I mean, when it presents an argument, it hints pretty clearly which side it believes is right. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Lee concludes with his signature: a jolt of violent footage plucked from the news, which feels more concerned with a didactic directing of the “discourse” than with dramatic coherence. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z He’s a gentle, playful, didactic presence in the boy’s life — Hopkins finds the essential grit hiding underneath the twinkle — dispensing gifts and jokes and hard nuggets of wisdom. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But Sunday’s generally leisurely hour was more enjoyable than other ‘values episodes,’ mainly because it largely avoided the show’s tendency toward didactic explication. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 10: Rick and Michonne Meet a Mysterious Visitor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z She uses black-and-white illustrations and diagrams from old reference books, isolating and recombining the botanical, biological, astronomical and mechanical imagery, subverting its didactic clarity. Two artists' work at Couturier Gallery negotiate chance and control 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Wigglesworth's First Book of Inventions seemed both a nod to the didactic nature of Bach's handbook and an attempt to pare his resources down to two, interdependent parts. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z Ms. Gaignard’s approach is not narrative, didactic or overtly political; she wittily employs symbols a viewer understands on a visceral level, even as a more explicit meaning remains elusive. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But it is also a spiritual treatise, a didactic dialogue between not-yet lovers. Clarice Lispector’s Lessons in Being Human 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Though his prose is elegant and precise, it serves didactic ends. China Mieville's 'The Last Days of New Paris' makes the surreal real 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The young romance subplot is perfunctory, and the basic anti-logging message contrives to be both didactic and pious, while being at the same time mystifyingly impotent. The Lorax – review 2012-07-26T20:00:01Z When it started, it was a series of vignettes — three stories of immigration — but what I was writing felt a bit didactic, so I had to enter the story personally. “I remembered as a kid, seeing dead bodies washed up on shore”: A conversation with Kareem Mortimer, writer and directed of “Cargo” 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z But the point registers quite clearly, thank you, even in a less openly didactic interpretation like this one, which was previously staged at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z But categories are imperative for a poetry manual, as with any didactic work. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z This makes for determinedly grim stories that consistently push their characters to extremes, and that feel oddly illustrative and didactic. Books of The Times: Tall Tales From Gifted Storytellers 2011-06-20T22:00:07Z But there's only so much the filmmakers can do with the novel's antiquated story and didactic dialogue. 'Atlas Shrugged: Part II': Story holds back faster-paced sequel 2012-10-11T20:09:04Z The Royal, in turn, has influenced Mr. McGregor’s choreography, introducing a softening human touch to work that, according to longtime observers like Ms. Craine, has sometimes been dry, even didactic. 2010-02-06T04:38:00Z Given that the outcome is revealed from the start, and that there are somewhat didactic detours along the way, the play’s emotional impact is especially noteworthy. Theater Review: Brian Friel’s ‘Freedom of the City,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-10-16T22:01:00Z On their watch, I feel more playful, and less didactic and shouty than normal. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Unlike earlier sections of that work, the finale manages to balance didactic clarity with transporting gracefulness. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The “big three”—Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros—are well-represented with paintings that reveal powerful narrative styles that were at once both passionate and didactic. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “In a way that’s not didactic or earnest or preachy, she’s giving you the keys to how to live,” White said. The Unsinkable Molly Shannon 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Neither didactic nor abstract, it is an insidiously enjoyable mosaic of consumption, globalization and ecological crisis. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Trust Seattle author Deb Caletti to tackle a Teen Issue — in this case, abusive relationships — without becoming didactic. Summer reading: nature's delights, the nature of friendship and life lessons for children and teens 2011-06-17T18:43:57Z ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag’ Sibyl Kempson, a distinctive and delirious writer, begins her new theater company with this vexing play, at once too diffuse and too didactic. Theater Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z For a novel chock-full of lessons, “Everything Sad” hardly feels didactic. From Iran to America, One Epic Tale at a Time 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z She should abandon altogether her "harsh, didactic voice" and use only "the soft musical one", the one he presumably knows better than most. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z Even in translation, even when he writes in a didactic vein, there is a feeling of phonetic undertow, that the poem is a trawl, not just talk. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z Sounds well-intentioned, and that is the effect of this show: earnest and a little didactic. Step Afrika’s ‘Green is the New Black’ lights up the stage The five part docu-series, which premieres Friday on Showtime, bypasses the didactic timeline of how the US got to this position and instead places the audience in unvarnished scenes of human suffering. 'It needs to make you uncomfortable': the opioid documentary set to shock America 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Anne Midgette: I enjoyed the show on a didactic level: It was a nice cross-section of a deliberately uneven oeuvre. A pair of critics on Karel Appel: Two ways of saying ‘meh’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But unlike others who have aimed for a similar interpretive modesty, Rosbaud’s approach was never clinical or didactic. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The heavily cerebral talk gets didactic and sluggish. Review: 'World Headquarters' ? at Velocity Dance Center ? is kinetic storytelling for a dystopian future 2010-10-02T19:46:00Z Nowadays, I only see a new film by the aloof, hectoring, didactic Godard when wild horses turn up at my front gate to drag me to a London press screening. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z Some sixty years before the birth of Christ, Lucretius wrote his only known work, “On the Nature of Things,” a didactic poem about how the world is made of atoms. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z I find George Eliot’s didactic tone and suffocating authorial presence pretty well unbearable. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z They can be playful, funny, anarchic, satirical, didactic, and mean, in order to reveal ingeniously something about ourselves. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In his hands, the siege story is inventive and fresh and the exposition is never didactic – never has a shot of a pair of red shoelaces been so terrifying. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z When they get too didactic, allegories turn boring, but when they veer too far from didacticism they get lost. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The first iterations of the book were too direct, too didactic and dry. In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Works like “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” succeed in part because they play against that didactic type. Art Review: ?Nan Goldin: Scopophilia? at Matthew Marks Gallery - Review 2011-12-08T23:21:31Z TV comics like Bee, Colbert, Oliver and Seth Myers, host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” have been so hard-hitting that their material sometimes “comes close to being didactic, and not cheerful,” Young said. Trump's White House: a gift or a curse for TV comics? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z How did you achieve a blend of lyrical and didactic? Book Talk: Oregon writer finds beauty, redemption on death row 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Like most tales of its foolish kind, my story was didactic but it did not moralise. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Beside the didactic explanation, mystery-set jewels are displayed in one of many plexiglass tubes that enable the visitors to look at the jewels from every angle. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z Unfortunately, the show smothers these ideas in wooden, didactic dialogue and exposition, and is overlong at 100 minutes. Where Are We? Theatrical Adventures in Digital Dislocation 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z His process involves a lot of research — on sustainability, predatory capitalism, psychology — but his work is far from didactic or heavy-handed. Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Botanic Garden conservatory at 100 Maryland Ave. SW, where a rear gallery is devoted to a gently didactic exhibition of the history of the poinsettia in U.S. floriculture. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Critics mostly panned the series for being too dark, too didactic—perhaps, Elon said, grimly, “because Israel is its own kind of dystopia.” Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z There is no need to be didactic about place; surely we are all able to perceive beauty—or its absence—in our life and work. ‘Seaweed Chronicles’ Review: A Fragile World at the Water’s Edge 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z That makes him sound didactic, but his jokes stay close to the ground and unexpected, sympathizing with much-mocked figures like landlords or subway drivers. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z This presentation is also an important bookend to the 1993 Biennial, a raucous, untidy show unforgettable for the real-life issues it threw in viewers’ faces — and for often overly didactic, hectoring and visually dry art. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The low-key approach, and some genial dashes of humor, balance out the more didactic, history-lesson aspects of the play. Review: 'Jackie & Me' brings together Little Leaguer, hero 2011-05-06T20:50:11Z Farah knows this geographical, social and political territory well, and he’s a helpful, often didactic guide. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes They were didactic films, for and about young people. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Lisa deals with serious ideas but her voice is very actor-friendly and she does not deliver those ideas in some didactic way. Steppenwolf's 'Detroit' heads to Broadway 2011-01-11T20:54:41Z Yet in “Clyde’s,” Nottage does something shrewd with the obvious underlinings that can sometimes make her meticulously researched plays feel didactic. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The most salutary and topical lesson of all in this amiably didactic vaudeville may be that, like so much else in this world, screens are usually big fat liars. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z There’s nothing forward-looking about the Ear Regulars, but neither is there anything didactic, self-important, preachy or defensive. Music Review: The Ear Regulars, Jazz Group at the Ear Inn, South Village 2010-04-26T22:50:00Z The fear with 'The Scarlet Letter' is that it will be didactic. Seattle's Intiman Theatre premieres a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Letter' 2010-10-20T23:20:00Z They verge on didactic except for the visual richness and emotional directness with which they examine their entwined subjects. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “I’m interested in the intergenerational and ecological knowledge that the items I work with embody,” she told me in a rare didactic moment. Patricia Marroquin Norby Is Bringing a Native Perspective to the Met 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z And those other strands — the historical material, featuring depictions of real people at the drug company and in the government agencies — can tend to feel didactic and a bit hollow. Review: ‘Dopesick’ Depicts the Opioid Crisis From All Sides 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Like the building in Braddock, Pa., the New Orleans installation carries a message about a community in rebirth, but not a didactic one. Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z This is unnecessarily repeated, but fortunately such didactic intrusions are kept to a minimum. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “A Distant Drum” mingles the dreamlike and the didactic. ‘A Distant Drum’ Recalls the Life of Nathaniel Nakasa 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z If the “The Pushcart War” sounds like crudely didactic socialist realism, that’s because, to some extent, it is. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z "It's aesthetically beautiful and challenging, and it's didactic without being patronizing," Koss says of the show. Gut-wrenching photo evidence from Brown vs. Plata in 'Prison Obscura' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Politics figure front and center in the lyrics, but the group takes pains not to be didactic. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Those later years of “M*A*S*H” could be didactic, and few fans would consider them among its best. ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The hotel imposes on the inmates a bland collective culture of banal romantic pop songs and didactic playlets that dramatize the virtues of couplehood. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The didactic chatter has a highbrow ring, with all the name- and quote-dropping. A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z There's an element of 'Portlandia' that allows a little bit of commentary without being didactic or overly serious. 'Portlandia' cast thinks you're 'special' ? not 2011-12-22T21:38:08Z Now, with the Brazilian author’s brand more valuable than ever, this didactic little handbook is being released in an elegant gift edition for fans in the United States. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The Tchaikovsky, though musically strong, is at times too didactic. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta; Stravinsky: Perséphone – DVD review 2012-12-13T17:24:00Z The sequences are artfully made, but there’s a didactic quality to their inclusion, making you feel a bit like a visitor at a sexual trafficking information center. Theater Review: ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking 2013-06-17T02:00:09Z The Sensational and the Political In his installations the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn waxes didactic on politics and philosophy, even as he bombards us with sensational imagery. Art Review: Thomas Hirschhorn Exhibitions at Gladstone and Dia 2012-09-27T21:44:23Z They became passionate allies, if not precisely friends, until 1968, when Godard became increasingly radical, difficult and didactic. Two in the Wave ? review 2011-02-10T22:06:00Z But a didactic interlocutor — more catalyst than realized human being, more reflector than protagonist — does not and likely cannot counterbalance the empire of slavery Varina represents. The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful Past 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z He taught widely throughout his career, an experience that fed into his didactic approach to practice. John Hopkins 2013-01-28T17:16:23Z There is something chilling about this friendly, didactic nod to our presence. “The Divers’ Game,” Jesse Ball’s Unnerving Parable of a Country That Feigns Innocence 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z His films are not always about issues of identity, gender or desire, yet on-screen he inevitably unsettles us in ways that are visceral and corporeal rather than didactic or deterministic. David Bowie’s magic dance: His explosive cinematic sexuality, from the Goblin King to “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z On the contrary: It’s a determined and didactic argument in favor of all those things, and an angry indictment of everyone who opposes them. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The show is grotesque, didactic, and indulgent—“Gossip Girl,” minus the wit, crossed with “Go Ask Alice.” Weekly Culture Review: How to Name a Scandal, “Anne of Green Gables,” and More 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s not didactic, but if you want to find #metoo themes, they are there. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The film, with dialogue mostly in Tamil, isn’t didactic but touches on the most contentious issues in Europe today — immigration and integration. For Its Star, ‘Dheepan’ Was the Role of His Lifetime 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The Highwomen feel established in Nashville, but still worry about striking the right tone: honest but not didactic, inspired but not cloying. Country Music Is a Man’s World. The Highwomen Want to Change That. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Rather we took issue with its didactic feel, making Louisa May Alcott’s great novel into the TV equivalent of box of old Saltines — dry, bland and tough to swallow. 2018's biggest TV disappointments, from moderately painful to the absolute worst 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Besides, said Penn, who was previously best known for his title role in the “Harold and Kumar” stoner movies, his intentions are more comic than didactic. Kal Penn Isn’t Making a Political Point with His Immigration Sitcom 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z But “The Mandibles” suffers from a common flaw of speculative fiction: Virtually every detail of the narrative serves to communicate some expository element, giving it a didactic tone. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z For me, the story demonstrates that faith is not as didactic or irrational as my son thinks. Motherlode Blog: Going to School on Rosh Hashana 2012-09-14T15:24:52Z Mr. Wolfe is after something sophisticatedly didactic if less immediately rousing — the show’s subtitle is “Or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.” Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Only occasionally do the proceedings become didactic, and they never stay that way for long. Review: In ‘The Reenactors,’ a Play About a Suicide Pact Has a Twist 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Seriousness has crept in — too many of the sketches have a didactic, lecturing quality at the expense of the wild, smutty humor that made the show necessary viewing. TV Review: ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Season 3 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z His copious endnotes furthered his didactic aim and so did the illustrations. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z Zhao thankfully, never gets too didactic, though the film is best when Fern is in motion. In Chloe Zhao's wandering "Nomadland," Frances McDormand journeys to an Oscar-worthy performance 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z “Synonyms” is the latest full-length feature from Lapid, whose exploration of Israeli identity in his movies is politically diagnostic rather than didactic. ‘Synonyms’ Review: Brilliant. Relentless. Comic. Tragic. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Many children enjoyed reading an ‘instructional’ book despite its didactic nature, often subverting it and making it an object of fun through mischievous annotations and games,” Mr. Grenby explains. ArtsBeat: Children Scribbling in the Margins 2011-03-15T18:23:00Z Bernette and Davis give voice to the least appealing aspect of The Wire – David Simon's didactic political rhetoric. TV Hall of Shame #5: Treme 2011-03-23T14:32:41Z As if some further justification for exhibiting paintings at this museum was needed, the show also includes didactic sections about the technique that goes into Mr. Estes painting and prints. Review: ‘Richard Estes: Painting New York City’ Features Works in Abstract Realism 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Providing hands-on activities rather than didactic stuff improves uptake and retention,” says Adab. 'No food should be taboo': how to tackle your child's weight – without giving them a complex 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Kitson did not write a didactic show, but he seems to be suggesting that the power of stories is more limited than we think. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z She has built a 15-foot edifice of clay spheres fired at high heat; two video works are shown within, one didactic, the other brashly sensual. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The Wire is the greatest drama in TV history, and it was plainly didactic about its argument against the war on drugs. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Her fiction was not didactic but rather nuanced, driven by character and situation, portraying realistic people engaged in the tumult of their lives. Nadine Gordimer offered a model of how to use books as social force 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z “He taught writers how to handle political content without being didactic and to handle difficult subjects without putting people to sleep.” ?Angels in America? Earns Place in Pantheon 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z She liked that the screenplay wasn’t overly didactic about the emotions the performers were to portray. How Rose Matafeo Shaped the Romance in ‘Starstruck’ 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s a didactic comedy, an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z "Women of the Movement" could have adopted the same didactic tones throughout, and at times it does, losing some of its winning dimensionality at a result. "Women of the Movement," though imperfect, gives life to Emmett Till's story 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z There is quite a bit of awkward, didactic dialogue here. Review: Amazon’s ‘Last Tycoon’ Is Slick but Short on Passion 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Series creator Misha Green doesn't sculpt "Lovecraft Country" as a didactic piece any more than she conceived of her previous series "Underground" as another brooding drama about slavery. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z In the hands of a less talented writer such thematic material might easily have become overly didactic, and the characters might have seemed like cutouts from a Chinese American knockoff of “Roots.” Review: ‘The Joy Luck Club,’ by Amy Tan 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z King does figure into a Season 2 story, when Kevin is cast as R.F.K. in a didactic school play about the recent troubles. Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z For all its moral seriousness and formal ingenuity, “Course of Empire” never really rises above being a didactic machine. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But, she adds, “I don’t believe in being didactic. I’m not trying to teach anybody any lessons.” Terry McMillan is as charming as the characters in her new book, 'I Almost Forgot About You' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It was an entertainingly subversive lob at," he wrote, "the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. Seattle Shakes delivers a fine 'Pygmalion' 2012-02-28T23:02:04Z But overall, the piece feels labored and didactic — all the more so since Shakespeare’s magical “Tempest” looms over it. GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Our solution was not to be polemic or didactic on any one of these things. ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Alex Gansa of ‘Homeland’ 2013-07-18T15:26:17Z Sculpture does still bear something of the burden of its commemorative and didactic origins. Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? 2011-08-09T17:39:27Z On their watch, I feel more playful, and less didactic and shouty than normal. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z What could have been boring and didactic instead hits a kind of pedagogical sweet spot — that priceless moment when a lesson becomes an event. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z I wanted, as an author, to deliver what is most important to me as a reader: a narrative that grapples with the questions, through character and story, without being didactic or polemical. Perspective | How to write a can’t-win book: An Israeli-Palestinian story 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Not all the entries are so politically didactic. Vaut le détour 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Sachs’s sometimes overly didactic language fails them here, and they also succumb to bouts of overacting. Theater Review: Joyce Hokin Sachs?s ?Eternal Equinox? at 59E59 Theaters 2012-03-08T21:44:38Z A large pipe with a cutaway to an intricate interior of smaller pipes and machinery is a didactic diagram of the artist’s function: to slice the surface off reality and expose its strange internal mechanism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Avoiding didactic conclusions or pat answers, Alala’s film questions blind belief but finds boundless enchantment in every frame. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z More openly didactic is “Last Kiosk,” a plywood stage flanked by two panels facing each other. An artists' look at citizenship and democracy in a world turned upside down 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “Gotta Serve Somebody” was the closest thing to a didactic statement. Review: Joan Osborne Delivers No-Nonsense Dylan 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z It was a didactic approach, at odds with our stereotypes of private collectors as pleasure seekers or investors. ‘Icons of Modern Art’: Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh, My! 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Like many studies of the 19th century, Goodman's book illustrates the dangers of overestimating the influence of didactic literature. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z The movie has a didactic knowingness that undercuts suspense, and even curiosity, at every turn. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Searing and concise, the sculptures satisfy that desire -- arguably burdensome for both practitioner and audience -- for work that is emblematic and at least vaguely didactic. Sui Jianguo: Chinese sculpture about control and its absence 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z And Terry Berliner’s direction can feel didactic at times, especially when actors take a Long, Meaningful Pause after unleashing words of wisdom like, “At least having regrets means you chose something.” Theater Review: For Artists, Growing Up Is Still Hard to Do 2011-06-20T21:56:37Z But his “Pinocchio” is less didactic and censorious than the film and the novel. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Instead of cheery, informative dioramas, however, the presentations are sculptural, with nary a didactic panel in sight. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Even the most didactic narrative films traffic mainly in feeling and story, leaving granular analysis of a many-faceted subject to essayists and debaters. From the streets to the screen: how Hollywood is tackling police brutality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z He can be didactic, a crotchety young fogy. Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert is excellent at revealing, without being didactic, the way the phrase-to-phrase layout of a composition fits into its larger structural arcs. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z That the play, and its adaptation, both feature lengthy and sometimes didactic politically minded monologues about gay rights is kind of revelatory. Ryan Murphy grows up with the stunning, heartbreaking “Normal Heart” 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z As music movements go, punk rock, which, at its extremes, can be nihilistic or politically didactic, isn’t necessarily associated with sex. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Never didactic, it nevertheless suggested, through tense, delicate music, musings on language, storytelling, social media and artistic ethics. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z And the didactic, moralizing streak that runs through much of Mr. Lumet’s work has provided some critics with a convenient, ready-made case against him. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z Fiction in Portugal in the 1970s – literature, but also cinema – tried to have a very didactic approach to the topic, wagging a finger at the viewer as if he was a child. Busting Tabu 2013-03-26T17:14:38Z All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn’t necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors’ hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious. Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z As the story unfolds, Joan’s depravity has a numbing effect, and the unremitting degeneracy of the male characters begins to seem didactic. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z But she said she took pains not to make the whole experience too didactic, a position shared by her friend and Chelsea neighbor Ms. Bernhard, who was the guest a year ago. Rosanne Cash, the Rubin Art Museum?s Resident Musician 2012-02-02T23:25:17Z With his judicious, thoughtful and balanced answers to difficult and often inflammatory questions, Hayes, a professor emeritus at Northwestern, has provided an intellectually searching and wide-ranging study of the Holocaust in a modest, didactic form. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Commonly, when a choreographer tries to express a state of emergency though dance, the results are obvious, didactic or maudlin. A Dance About the State of Emergency We’re In 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Yet even this part of “Catarina” feels like an invitation to grapple with what humanity is capable of, rather than a didactic demonstration. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z These characters’ intersecting fights—against H.I.V./AIDS and trans homelessness, for citywide health care and marriage equality—form a panorama that is at once chaotic and propulsive and didactic, much like activism itself. Dustin Lance Black, the Screenwriter Behind “Milk” and “When We Rise,” on Coming Out As a Gay Activist 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Both didactic and celebratory in spirit, the five-day festival disrupts a landscape dominated by white D.J.s and producers by foregrounding Black artists and their critical role in dance music’s genesis. Black Artists Pioneered Electronic Music. This Festival Celebrates Them. 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But both shows use tabloid material for didactic purposes and, specifically, to condemn the morally vacuous eras they depict. Critic’s Notebook: London’s Dark Musicals ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Stephen Ward’ 2014-01-20T18:23:32Z “Not anyone didactic, or whose sole purpose in the narrative is to illustrate some social abnormality. There’s no meaning behind it, other than she is just there.” Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z “Scientists can be very analytical and didactic,” she said. From the Depths of Space to the Walls of a Gallery 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Something that was more experiential than didactic or informational. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The greater challenge, perhaps, is finding theatrical ways to incorporate the novel’s philosophical themes without making the script didactic. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z Like any other great text, varieties of responses are proper: this is not a simple, didactic text. The Book of Genesis, part 8: Why this story? 2011-01-31T10:00:00Z There wasn’t a didactic wall text in sight. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z "Her methods of devising movement, patterned after Merce Cunningham's chance operations, are complex and didactic." Twyla Tharp's 'The One Hundreds': Why volunteers are the stars of this dance show 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “The biggest challenge was to not make it feel didactic, but make it feel like you’re inside this world of information, this new way of looking at things.” | Below the Line: The Oscar-Nominated Editor of 'Moneyball' Deconstructs a Scene 2012-02-08T18:00:35Z In the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, when he wrote the majority of his work, much of what was in vogue at least pointed toward the political and, often, was outrightly didactic. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z You weave that into the book without being didactic. Author Gabriel Bump: "We might be moving towards worse racial issues" 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z It is certainly amusing: a sly assault on conceptual art, disparaging the movement’s didactic, text-heavy creations even as it doubles as a definitive example of one. John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z There is a didactic scene of Holly talking frankly to the doctor who got her son hooked on drugs, as if to excuse parental responsibility. “Ben Is Back”: Julia Roberts doesn’t save this uneven addiction drama 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z “It’s very easy for her to communicate things that I think other people would get very didactic about.” A Curator Unbound: First She Was Fired. Then She Found Freedom 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Essentially dispensing with the didactic prologue, Mr. Kulick’s staging, using a translation by James and Tania Stern, with lyrics by W. H. Auden, tosses us quickly into the chaos of political upheaval. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z But that's how art works on one, and it's true of supposedly didactic artists like Brecht and Shaw. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z But if it leans toward didactic overstatement and soap opera pulpiness, “Tamara” also delivers a surprising, intricately shaded portrait of an artist as a conflicted woman. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z There's nothing didactic here — just brilliant vocals, thought-provoking narratives, hypnotic violins and the most finely attuned poetic sensibility in rock. A summer soundtrack: Janelle Mon?e, The Hold Steady, The Roots and more 2010-08-04T21:56:00Z This novel has been divisive among fans of the fantasy genre, mainly because of its rather didactic nature, which frankly fits within Kuang's unique approach. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Kiarostami’s point is clear: the didactic order of the closed system of the school is an imposed fiction, one that falls entropically apart in life at large. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Simon has always steered clear of direct political messages, determined not to be didactic. For Paul Simon and Joan Baez, Farewells Reckon With Past and Present 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The spare flatness of the images, the tamped-down performances, and the restricted scope of the incidents contribute to the sense of didactic clarity and earnest purpose. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In this study, which our reviewer, Nicholas Stargardt, called a culminating “final lecture,” Hayes offers “an intellectually searching and wide-ranging study of the Holocaust in a modest, didactic form.” Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Although the novel is occasionally didactic, it fruitfully presses readers to ask themselves, and others, what it means to be a good person in a mean world. A New Novel From the Author of ‘When You Trap a Tiger’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z He was the hero of a series of didactic stories by Horatio Alger, about a shoeshine boy who goes from literal rags to riches through hard work and clean living. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z And you're right, that didactic approach, it wouldn't hit as hard, because for me, what Shawn had is what the Black experience is. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Moore overlays his version with lacy silk screens of the signs and symbols for many of the 350 toxic chemicals tainting the falls’ water and mist, an effect that is more didactic than genuinely pictorial. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z All the books she’s chosen are “either guidebooks or texts with an explicitly didactic bent,” she writes in the introduction. How to Describe America’s Character Through Its Favorite How-To Books 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Like Mrs. Romney before her, Mrs. Obama was tapped to draw a personal, approachable portrait of a husband who is sometimes seen as aloof and didactic. The TV Watch: The TV Watch: From Michelle Obama, a Heartfelt Testimonial as the First Helpmate 2012-09-05T04:31:04Z But it's rather less didactic in tone than usual, and doesn't flag up its underlying Christian moral. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z The movie separates fairly neatly into three parts: the action, the backstory, and the didactic element. Review: “Operation Finale” and the Popular Understanding of Adolf Eichmann 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Although the series has come to teach some history, it doesn’t come off as didactic. 'Little Bird' review: A powerful exploration of the 'Sixties Scoop' and Indigenous assimilation 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z “What I can do is to give the audience the kind of navigation system without being didactic.” Salzburg Festival nearly sold out while others in classical music struggle to regain audience 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z I myself do not, and I found him and this shapeless, didactic meta-jumble close to insufferable. All 21 movies in competition at Cannes, ranked from worst to best 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z But once the script hardens into something more didactic, the cracks begin to show. Review: Village Theatre’s premiere of ‘How to Break’ 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z These poems do not intend to be didactic. ‘Above Ground’ author Clint Smith, in Seattle April 11, is a poet at heart 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z I wanted above all to make it honest and not make it didactic. Perspective | 4 acclaimed novelists talk about writing Vietnam 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z In any of these areas, which narrative is more likely to penetrate the public consciousness: a simple, memorable lie or the tedious, didactic truth? Opinion | Everything you believe about the debt ceiling is wrong. Here’s why. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Although Riker has little interest in the formulaic or didactic, he considers literature a conversation above all else; he works in models, talks through other books. The book world needs practical dreamers. Enter publisher-novelist Martin Riker 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Another user responded: "Who makes these? The script, camera angles, editing and even lens choices come together to create a condescending, mid-20th-century didactic tone." Chancellor branded 'Mr Bean' for inflation video 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z This would feel didactic if not for the way Salesses animates these explanations with the drama in the Korean studio and Carrie’s passion for the form. Review | ‘The Sense of Wonder’ puts a fictional spin on Jeremy Lin’s ascendance 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “I didn’t want to make work that was didactic.” For artist Uta Barth, learning to photograph is a way of learning to see 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Even at moments where it is more didactic in spelling out its jokes, enough are still given room to breathe on their own. ‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s adaptation does the book justice 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “William’s work is a revelation on that front. It’s a road map to how a studio can function and how an artist can think through substantial social issues and bigger historical narratives without being didactic.” Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Ferragamo’s quintessential immigrant story, which led him to Santa Barbara, serves as a vehicle for a didactic lesson on silent-era Hollywood, where his designs found a receptive and well-off audience. Review: Inspiring documentary 'Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams' walks a safe path 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Occasionally, the conversations between Reed and others feel overly didactic because of unnatural, explanatory runs of dialogue that slow the novel’s otherwise brisk pace. Review | ‘Which Side Are You On’ tells a story for and of our times 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z According to Variety, the film “largely avoids didactic moralizing in favor of a deeper, more sorrowful examination of interior guilt, accountability and compromised solidarity — though its touch in this regard could be lighter.” New movies to stream this week: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ and more 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Republican operatives and donors who have interacted with DeSantis said he sometimes struggles to connect with people, and his speeches are often didactic — not dazzling the crowd. Trump and DeSantis: Once allies, now in simmering rivalry with 2024 nearing 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Colleagues on both sides of the aisle described him as principled and didactic. Dan Cox was a backbench Md. lawmaker. Then the pandemic hit. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Over six decades, Mr. Godard’s output of more than 90 features, documentaries, shorts and videos defined him as one of the most productive, mischievous, didactic, subversive and polarizing of moviemakers. Jean-Luc Godard, rule-breaking master of French cinema, dies at 91 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “America” is an easy read, consisting of short stories about people, events and historic moments that serve as didactic tales. Opinion | Tim Scott’s book of miracles 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z She writes with wisdom, grace and a skilled hand; her work is seamless on the page, especially on matters involving identity and all manners of diversity, which in lesser hands could feel didactic. Review: Megan Giddings' powerful new novel is a "Handmaid's Tale" for the post-Roe era 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Never didactic or heavy-handed, he let the story line evolve from the action, playing it right down the middle, no matter how high the stakes or how disappointing the loss. 'It’s like your childhood ... is now really over': How Vin Scully bridged generations 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z She adds, “It’s a powerful way to teach principles and concepts that extend well beyond what we do in traditional didactic cognitive behavioral therapy.” Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “It’s a political topic, but I’m trying not to be too political or didactic. I want it to be a celebration, an ever-evolving thing. Walls are built, walls move, countries change — mutable boundaries.” 23 San Diego artists will transform the city's parks with new public artworks 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The possibly limited-on-purpose characterizations in favor of a systemic focus — in conjunction with the many, many stories “We Own This City” takes on — leaves the series somewhat didactic and airless. Review | ‘We Own This City’ is an ambitious but uneven companion to ‘The Wire’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z “It’s very important for me to face myself in a political way that is not literal or didactic or even narrative. To construct something that can produce questions,” he said. At Regen Projects, Abraham Cruzvillegas breaks the rules, including his own 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Though the section is essentially didactic, the concept — and therefore the scene — is riveting and relevant to the story. Hollywood has finally paid attention to Deaf culture. Three new novels go even deeper 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The scale is simply too vast for any didactic artistic critique to feel adequate. How Should Art Reckon With Climate Change? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z It is didactic and feels preachy, even when you agree wholeheartedly with its sentiments and values. Perspective | New one-act operas capture the contradictions and national ambivalence about monuments and memorials 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z That the characters tend to be, at heart, straightforwardly good or bad only compounds the didactic effect. Review | Jonathan Evison’s ‘Small World’ feels like a big statement about America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z More recent Hollywood treatments of the finance world have become didactic to the point of agitprop, coinciding with a realignment of American politics in which Republicans have gotten more trade-protectionist and young people more socialist. Bad guys in banking movies are usually noisy. 'Azor' shows the horrors of silence. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Without being overly didactic, it also foregrounds the importance of interracial alliances in the struggle for social justice. Does this North Carolina candidate's viral video have a winning lesson for Democrats? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Their twelfth album, last year’s “20/20 Vision,” is prototypical punk, with familiar — if didactic — lyrical themes and music intended to open hearts, minds and mosh pits. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Over the course of the past decade or so, sex comedy has waned in funniness, veering into didacticism, or else, a desire to punish the didactic. A Brief Introduction to Philosophy (Through a Certain Sex Act) 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z A hot political environment has taught many reporters to see their work in moral, even didactic, terms. Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Smartly, “Who You Think I Am” doesn’t absolve Claire of her choices — but it also resists a didactic reduction of Claire’s character. Review: Juliette Binoche makes you believe in catfishing drama 'Who You Think I Am' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Other senators who supported Biden at the time were taken aback by their young colleague’s “didactic performance,” the columnists wrote. From Saigon to Kabul: Biden’s response to Vietnam echoes in his views of Afghanistan withdrawal 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z “It wouldn’t be didactic. It would say something about his spirit as a living, breathing person.” Perspective | The newest comic book superhero: An enslaved man turned immortal 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z It is these boastful collections of animals, these autocratic menageries, from which the modern zoo, with its didactic plaques and $15 hot dogs, springs. Opinion | Modern Zoos Are Not Worth the Moral Cost 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Without being didactic, Smith debunks contorted arguments that the Civil War was not about slavery. Review | On a tour of historical sites, examining how the story of slavery is taught 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “His work is political without being didactic or dogmatic; and, especially in his descriptions of Hap’s life, he illustrates the elusiveness of the American dream.” Seek out that ‘new book’ smell with a fresh bouquet of fiction, all new in paperback 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z He delivers his monologues in a cheerful version of the didactic tone that thrives on TikTok. A Pastor’s Son Becomes a Critic of Religion on TikTok 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z His work was straightforward without being naive, Wilson wrote, clear-eyed without being didactic, precise about matters of war and foreign lands, pioneering in how deeply he got into the heads of his characters. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Cleary frowned on the moralizing, didactic themes that dominated children’s literature in the first half of the 20th century. Beverly Cleary, beloved author who chronicled schoolyard scrapes and feisty kids, dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Drake’s photos explore those bonds and the power of womanhood but not in a didactic, hit-you-over-the-head way. Perspective | Faulknerian images reflect the bonds of women in the Deep South 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Sometimes people are a lot more didactic and, ‘Oh no, it must be exactly as I say.’ David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones details his new graphic novel ‘Madi’: It ‘has meant the world to me’ 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z They also served a didactic function by showing the kind of worker that should operate Powers machines once a company purchased them. Britain’s sexist campaign to sell computers 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z "Theater is often at its best when it is not didactic, or presents one clear indisputable morality," said Evans. Bearing witness to a war against detained children 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The videos are detailed and didactic, similar in format to those produced by more trusted food media outlets. Watch This Disgusting Food Video Right Now. It Explains Everything. 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Some political art is didactic; Spectrum’s is just good. Seattle dance is back for fall (it’s just online) 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Where is the risk in politically didactic art when it is posted on Instagram like a kind of virtuous trading card? The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Arguing that emotion and intellect aren’t mutually exclusive, he traces the way passion fuels the political and philosophical convictions of characters in symphonically structured comedies that are far too witty to be monotonously didactic. In memoriam: How critic Eric Bentley rescued American theater from provincialism 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Sara Paretsky sees crime fiction as the form “where law, justice and society come together in a natural way – that is, you can write about them without being polemical or didactic”. Me and my detective by Lee Child, Attica Locke, Sara Paretsky, Jo Nesbø and more 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z For a filmmaker capable of subtle portraits, such as “Personal Shopper” or “Clouds of Sils Maria,” he missed the mark going the didactic route with an emphasis on the timeline and globetrotting plot. Review: A tale of two Cubas that only skims the surface 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z This decidedly personal slant makes for an immersive and often profound viewing experience, one that avoids feeling didactic or clinical. Review: An enlightening look at transgender representation in Hollywood, then and now 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In the hands of any other filmmaker, such didactic digressions might drag down the narrative. Review | Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may not be perfect, but it arrives at a time when it feels necessary 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z I really appreciated your perspective and insight into how media have evolved and specifically how social media can be so didactic. Readers on Spike Lee, Ivanka Trump, Confederate statues, racism and white complicity 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Livio’s occasional straying into the didactic, not to say homiletic, will be distracting or irritating for some readers. Review | Galileo and the struggle between religion and science 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z It falls somewhere between a particularly dense instruction manual and an especially didactic piece of scripture. Rules, Rescheduled Games and a Covenant Worth Preserving 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z That digression aside, Burns doesn’t play the dynamic in a didactic way. Review: In a fierce novel about Appalachia, the handlers are worse than the snakes 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z His tale of two friends, Timmy and Marco, who are embroiled in rival gangs, reflects on a larger problem but refuses to be didactic. Rapman's 'Blue Story' battles #BAFTAsoWhite and coronavirus on the way to the screen 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Mescal felt more at ease after an early discussion with the director in which he was reassured that Abrahamson wouldn’t be “didactic or forcing me into doing anything.” This is how 'Normal People' made some of TV's steamiest sex scenes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Response to trauma became a recurring theme not because Sugar wanted “Steven Universe” to be “a didactic cartoon,” she says, but because “I really wanted it to be an expression of us as artists.” ‘Steven Universe’ creator says farewell, knowing her show made young LGBTQ viewers feel seen 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z This history underlies everything on view, but Oppenheim’s work is far from didactic. Review: Think of it as photography, reinvented. Why Lisa Oppenheim's art entrances 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Treading topical waters with an incisive flair, de Jong offers no didactic salvation or pessimistic prospects. Review: Fashionista Slick Woods dominates Sam de Jong's explosive hip-hop drama ‘Goldie’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But “Zombi Child” never becomes a didactic treatise. Review: Bertrand Bonello's strange, beguiling 'Zombi Child' is a zombie movie like no other 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z If this sounds too didactic, be assured that the director is not interested in going down that road. Review: ‘Earth’ examines the big picture in the San Fernando Valley and around the globe 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The moral tax for this charmed, craft-cocktail-fueled New York is the openly didactic nature of the show. ‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Nor does that definition come close to describing the way a loquacious, didactic, wildly entertaining football coach named Hank Stram helped turn those four syllables into a game-changer for an entire industry. Chief on the mic: 50 years later, Stram still shines on film 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Furious laments for the victims of Grenfell Tower are followed by a crisp snapshot of idealistic young Jamaicans disembarking from the Empire Windrush in 1948, and a didactic sequence about the legacy of slavery today. TS Eliot prize-winner Roger Robinson: ‘I want these poems to help people to practise empathy’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z She says the next song she releases will be political, too, aiming to “spark questions in people’s brains” – though her lyrics tend to be searching and introspective rather than didactic. 20 for 2020: unmissable culture and rising stars 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z When you listen to these original broadcasts, they have a similar kind of clear, didactic, angry, imploring tone that is reminiscent of what we hear from our outrage hosts today. “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z “I would call it a satire, perhaps. There is this backdrop of consumerism but I always felt uncomfortable having this didactic approach. We’re all a part of that system.” In Peter Strickland's gleefully demented 'In Fabric,' an upscale department store serves as a shop of horrors 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z And, as is the case with too many architecture shows, there’s an over-reliance on didactic displays, research projects that have not quite been synthesized into a museum installation. Cities around the world are erupting in protest — an architecture biennial examines why 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z That is, farmers experience the promise of organic cotton agriculture as a strategic choice to follow didactic instructions and a performance on a new kind of agricultural stage. For India’s cotton farmers, cooperatives — not technology — offer stability 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z This all may sound dangerously didactic, but Ijames pulls it off with a graceful series of conversations that fly lightly through the air but have beaks as sharp as daggers. Artists lose their heads, figuratively and literally, in ‘White’ and ‘The Revolutionists’ at Seattle’s 12th Ave Arts 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z They engage in didactic speech, slippery-slope language, and usually that brings us into the land of hyperbole — so the land of overstatement and exaggeration. “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet there’s no didactic moral to these beautiful pictures. 'Future relics': the painter capturing the beauty of council houses 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Possibly this impromptu recycling-for-dummies tutorial is just the president being performatively didactic, or perhaps he is inoculating himself from cable TV hysterics who might associate reuse with One World Government. When Donald met Scott: a reporter's view of Trump and his White House wonderland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z More didactic fiction, she says, is prone to being dismissed as propaganda. Is the political novel dead? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z “Neither preachy nor overly didactic, they enable a prolonged, open-ended reflection on an old and complex social phenomenon,” read a Times feature advancing the San Diego show. Nancy Reddin Kienholz, who pushed art boundaries with husband Edward, dies at 75 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Hyperarticulation is didactic, a way of teaching a growing human our language. Opinion | Things People Say to Their Dogs 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the play’s didactic challenge and call to action remain deadly serious. Review: It's rich versus poor in Antaeus Theatre's 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z A soundtrack, and not just a wall label or didactic panel, makes more room for poetry, for freewheeling leaps of the imagination and for stream-of-consciousness associations, not to mention enjoyment and revelation. Review: The L.A. art exhibition that will have you laughing, gasping and crying 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z “How could a thousand-plus-page novel, featuring cartoonish characters moving through a melodramatic plot peppered with long didactic speeches, attract so many readers and so much attention?” The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The show addressed the particularities of the time, but I didn’t want to make it didactic. ‘So beautiful I cried’: Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more on the thrill of the Venice Biennale 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Director Roxann Dawson makes the dramatic scenes plausible and not overly didactic. Review | The movie ‘Breakthrough’ is a service to the audience it was intended for 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Was it vital to emphasize these experiences, and was it tricky to avoid becoming didactic? Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett shares her road from Chicago to the White House 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z “The film isn’t didactic about one thing or the other,” Brook says. ‘The Aftermath’ explores compassion for the enemy in the wake of WWII 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Not in a didactic way, not that you’re trying to control the process, but that you want to understand how decisions were made, how we get there, rather than, “Here’s your script. Go.” After ‘Gotham,’ Ben McKenzie goes from hero to movie bad guy 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In the university setting, my intent is not to be didactic but rather, to engage in a series of conversations with people. A Harvard Law School Professor Defends His Decision to Represent Harvey Weinstein 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z What about the worry that social-impact entertainment makes TV shows, movies and theater way too didactic? Leonardo DiCaprio, Don Cheadle praise the power of social impact entertainment 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z I'm not really that interested in being didactic or educating people, just in a sort of straightforward way. With the controversial 'Adam,' Rhys Ernst takes a deeper look at queer identity 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite its comedy at the revolutionaries’ expense, “B” is not a didactic play. ‘A’ is for anarchist, ‘B’ is for bomb: a review of ‘B’ at Washington Ensemble Theatre 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The world of “Cat Person” was meant to be your world, your language, your voice, and in it was a little didactic lesson about relationships that we could all come away with. Why Do We Obsess Over What’s ‘Relatable’? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Tay Hohoff, an editor at J. P. Lippincott, decided to take a chance on Lee, but encouraged her to abandon the didactic, abrasive scenes between adults and focus on the manuscript’s endearing childhood scenes. The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z It wasn’t as didactic as that, but you walk up to each painting and get a feeling. Artist Julian Schnabel explores Van Gogh on film and in a new museum show - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “We don’t have a ton of signage. We make a really big effort to not be prescriptive and didactic.” Glenstone is a private museum. What does that mean, anyway? 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This narrative device allows the book to be both tender and didactic without becoming sentimental. A vital new book about America's divide: 'Heartland' by Sarah Smarsh - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z If the attempt to represent London in all its diversity sounds didactic, even corny, I anticipate that the massed spectacle of childish humanity will be more surprising than that. Steve McQueen’s school photo will open a window on to our collective soul | Susanna Rustin 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z The messages, largely in English, have ranged from didactic to deeply personal, polite to racy. Sweden to End Twitter Experiment Letting Ordinary People Be Nation’s Voice 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Despite Hanawalt’s interest in women having control over their own narratives, she never wants her work to be didactic. BoJack Horseman's Lisa Hanawalt on her new graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The parallels between climate and gender are wobbly, and the “speak the truth” story line is didactic. Christine Hallquist’s Vermont Win and the Emergence of Transgender Politicians 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z What makes the story more nuanced is that Powell didn’t seem to be especially likeable: didactic at times, refusing to dramatize his dramatic life, yet saddled with an almost reckless ambition. Review | The big personality and big contributions of John Wesley Powell 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “If I write something really didactic, it’s resolved, it’s gone,” he says. Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z All these manifestations of anti-Jewish feeling form the backdrop for a didactic autobiography, a kind of "Pilgrim's Progress" in which Dershowitz plays Christian, wandering through a landscape flickering with old, familiar demons. Alan Dershowitz, Jewish identity and the long road to defending Donald Trump 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “We’re worried they might be too didactic, too reductive,” said Thomas. Fifty billboards: an art project hopes to provoke debate across America 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z She is at her weakest, predictably, when didactic. Sara Gallardo's work has finally been published in English. It's about time. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “We don’t want to be overly didactic,” she said, “as with any piece of art.” Heavy Breathing in Manhattan Park Is Not What Anyone Thinks It Is 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z But networks, keen on mass-producing what Early calls “woke, arguably didactic comedy”, responded to the show with confusion, as though broad, social behavior sitcoms had no precedent. 'The world of comedy has changed': how queer comics are making their mark in America 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “I try not to be didactic. It’s not ‘My dance is about A.’ It’s usually about a bunch of different things.” In the Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial, dance moves back into the picture 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition is not necessarily didactic; it’s meant to offer a variety of opinions and outlooks. Artists on climate change: the exhibition tackling a global crisis 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It is also the clearest and most didactic warning of the downfall that Cole was confident that America would experience if the young country did not heed the lessons of the old world. Environmentalist art before there was an “environment” 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z |
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