Sentence examples for didactic origins from inspiring English sources
Sculpture does still bear something of the burden of its commemorative and didactic origins.
But when people lose sight of the merely practical and didactic origin of these distinctions and construct a philosophical theory of form as divisible into simple form and ornate form, logical form and affective form, and so forth, they are introducing elements of rhetoric into aesthetics and vitiating the true concept of expression.
Of all the holidays on the American calendar, Labor Day is the only one whose origins have what might be called a socially didactic quality.
The duo's tribulations are interrupted by dizzying tangents on Piranesi, Nietzsche, and Spinoza, but beneath these often didactic layers is a compelling mystery: Josué races to discover his origins before he meets his gruesome demise.
The earliest didactic writings, Irish in language but in content mostly of Latin origin, comprised monastic rules, homilies, and hagiography.
The collected data include the creation of specific didactic material, the organization of a financial aid campaign for their country of origin, the implementation of medical offices for specific needs, among other devices.
Among Ciceronian poets are Catullus, the first master of the Latin love lyric, and Lucretius, who contemplated the origins of the universe and the scientific and philosophical laws that govern it in the long didactic poem De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things").
History is essentially didactic.
He becomes momentarily didactic.
