Sentence examples for as a didactic from inspiring English sources

Barker would hate to be thought of as a didactic writer, of course.

They followed what historians describe as a didactic or pedagogic model.

Cai is quick to insist that he does not see himself as someone using art as a didactic "tool".

It would be naïve to imagine the film as a didactic attempt to persuade us against judging others or to prove to us that morality is relative.

Arendt noted that the Israeli prosecutors were trying to use the case as a didactic tool, to create "a show trial".

Whatever its value as a didactic and communicative project, its routine use of the Internet lacks the imagination one looks for in art.

In this exhibition his work has taken on, as well, a didactic moral or religious cast, and this was where I into trouble.

In 2000, Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, writing in the libertarian magazine Reason, said about a proposed film on Stalinism: "A film like this could easily have turned out as big a didactic dud as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's 1982 bomb, Inchon, with Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur".

Uncertainty in the domain of knowledge is not to be considered as an obstacle, but rather as a didactically fertile challenge and an opportunity for making progress.

The attitude reflected in these practices was expressed in the famous dictum of Pope Gregory I, that art is the book of the illiterate; art was thus conceived as having a didactic function.

African animal tales also provide lessons in the form of aphorisms that are neither as platitudinous nor as didactic as Aesop's fables.