Sentence examples for didactic letter from inspiring English sources

C.E. historian), explaining a small passage in some detail, but then continues in the vein of a didactic letter written to an unnamed fellow alchemist (called 'friend of the Muses' at one point); it 'explains' how to join scattered parts of gold and purify metals, emphasizes the significance of 'divine water' (whatever that is) and so on and so forth.

Here "Alphabet Mystery" shows its didactic roots: each letter chooses an object starting with its sound.

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.

Eva is less didactic, but her reasons for writing letters are, like Clarissa's, essential to her story.

Cover-letter scholarship has made me didactic.

Another of Kwee Tek Hoay's works, Korbannja Kong-Ek, was inspired by a viewer, who wrote him a letter asking for a comforting and morally didactic play.

In Arabic the term for "literature" in the narrow English sense is adab, best translated by the French term belles-lettres ("beautiful letters"), which conveys the combination of the aesthetic and didactic elements found in adab more effectively than does the English term literature.

Perhaps, like Flags of our Fathers (which Eastwood paired with Letters from Iowa Jima), American Sniper needs a more didactic balancing element; Spielberg wanted to expand the role of the Iraqi sniper who becomes Kyle's nemesis, but Eastwood has stripped things back so that we observe the action through American eyes only, our focus as blinkered as that of its titular killer.

The epistolary Satirical Letter of Papyrus Anastasi I written during the Nineteenth dynasty was a pedagogical and didactic text copied on numerous ostraca by schoolboys.

In 1781 he wrote a desperate letter of appeal to Edmund Burke, who read Crabbe's writings and persuaded James Dodsley to publish one of his didactic, descriptive poems, The Library (1781).

History is essentially didactic.