Sentence examples for didactic commentary from inspiring English sources

Geraldine McCaughrean has an exceptional ability to tell stories without reducing them to didactic commentary.

But as with the didactic commentary on the couple's views about race, Alexander, who teaches history at Georgia Tech, falls into the cant of academic discourse about spousal abuse, rape and the limited choices of a 19th-century black woman with Alice's social and literary ambitions.

Though Mr. Bromell has created some wonderfully appealing characters, though his depiction of these characters' conflicting loyalties is often compelling, "Little America" remains hobbled by diagrammatic politics and a tendency, especially in its later pages, to gloss the story with layers of didactic commentary.

He famously coined a phrase to describe what he abhors in modern fiction: "hysterical realism," which refers to a style of writing that features rampant caricature, absurd plots and prose, and frequent references to popular culture combined with didactic social commentary.

Ovid's Ars amatoria was comedy or satire in the burlesque guise of didactic, an amusing commentary on the psychology of love.

Hartmann hailed from Munich, and these lively pieces -- filled with sassy dance music and parodies of popular songs, and bristling with didactic left-wing commentary -- could well have been a Bavarian answer to the Berlin collaborations of Brecht and Weill.

A series of didactic sessions accompanied by commentaries was held.

"Manly Games" is Mr. Svankmajer's first piece of unambiguous social commentary, but its heavily didactic nature is made tolerable by humor: it's easily his funniest film.

Frans Sartono, reviewing for the historically Catholic daily Kompas, considered the film heavily didactic but ultimately interesting, because its social commentary was much needed, considering Indonesia's religious turmoil.

His other poetic works include didactic verse; Les Amours et nouveaux échanges des pierres précieuses (1576), a commentary on exotic stones and their inherent secret virtues written in the tradition of the medieval lapidaries; and La Reconnue (1577; "The Rediscovered Daughter"), a comedy in verse based on Plautus' Casina.

It appears from Kennedy's commentaries that the anthologies, like her legal books, have a didactic purpose, and are intended for people without prior knowledge of the subject.