It has to go on in continuum" sounded like a querulous Luddite -- even to millions who had applauded the didactic ending of "Jurassic Park".
The movie's detractors will, in the light of history, look as ridiculous as those who, in the early nineteen-thirties, decried Howard Hawks's "Scarface," requiring that it be released with a didactic prologue, a didactic insert, a didactic ending, and a subtitle ("The Shame of a Nation").
The new religion would rely on art and philosophy, but put them to overtly didactic ends: It would use the panoply of techniques known to traditional religions (buildings, great books, seminaries, etc).
But a dreadfully didactic, jingoistic ending undoes its power and leaves little doubt that "Dragons" is, essentially, children's theater.
By leaving some strands of the story dangling and insisting on a didactically melodramatic ending, "Kadosh" ("sacred" in Hebrew) ultimately sacrifices some dramatic credibility while retaining a disquieting rhetorical power.
Informants suggested the increase of both didactic and clinical end-of-life content in undergraduate nursing programs and the need for debriefing sessions for all students caring for the dying.
The play sometimes turns too didactic, especially near the end, as Mr. Gilford has characters make here's-the-point statements that aren't necessary.
Van Peebles knew that in order to spread his message, the film "simply couldn't be a didactic discourse which would end up playing to an empty theater except for ten or twenty aware brothers who would pat me on the back and say it tells it like it is" and that "to attract the mass we have to produce work that not only instructs but entertains".
Michelle Erica Green in her review for TrekNation, described "When the Bough Breaks" as "tedious, plodding and didactic" with a "preposterous" ending.
