Sentence examples for didactic moral from inspiring English sources

Marulić's didactic moral works were written in Latin and translated into many European languages.

Not a breath of air or natural light passes across the set: we're in the dead zone of schematic abstraction and didactic moral fable.

A strong didactic, moral element underlies much of Crane's work, and for several years he contributed weekly cartoons to the socialist periodicals Justice and The Commonweal.

Like Seinfeld and its famous "no hugging, no lessons" policy, the episodes don't have a didactic moral, but the characters are all searching for something meaningful in this sometimes crummy life.

We have quests, but there is no rule of three by which the protagonist can learn to do better, and no didactic moral purpose showing how the supernatural favours the merciful, the clever or the poor.

Strikingly, "Here Is Elsewhere" featured the very kind of art that is most typically accompanied, in museum shows, by didactic, moral-pointing wall texts.

Little Women and Robinson Crusoe are at once didactically moral and highly poetical.

What makes this First Golden Age so particularly distinct is, in fact, its didactic and moral purpose.

Laclos's novel is, he claims, didactic, a moral satire of a dangerous, heartless world; yet he also admires the cold, vengeful intelligence that invents and directs that world's viciousness, which the highly crafted epistolary construction of the work, as well as its elegant, sharp-witted, and subtle language, brilliantly exemplify.

The stories are generally didactic, emphasizing correct moral conduct, and almost always have happy endings.

They are earnestly moral, didactic; they build them ever more stately mansions, and they exhort and plead and refine, and they are, insofar, books of error.