It's a didactic piece with too much prose, too many chases and not enough wit.
"It's not a didactic piece," said Lynne Cooke, the curator of the Dia centers in Manhattan and Beacon.
And while there are philosophical and satirical implications to the story, Basden is aiming for a colourful rather than didactic piece: "I want it to be visually rich and bold.
For all its fights, blood and drunken vomit, this is a talky, often didactic piece, and its punky rage wears thin, even with the added interest of the Polish setting.
Crampton said she wanted the play to be more than a "didactic piece of issue-based theatre", adding that the risk of the play being seen as "culturally patronising" was something acknowledged by both the playwrights and director.
While normally a press release would help fill in certain blanks of comprehension, the one created for this exhibition is not your standard didactic piece of paper but instead a work in its own right.
Were it a didactic ideological piece, it would be deadly.
Travel journalism often falls into one of two camps — the highly didactic and servicey piece, "go here, stay there, see that," or the long-winded narrative in which the writer has the experience and we are meant to be satisfied by the first-person blow-by-blow he or she has brought back for us: "the road into town was dusty and unpaved and the driver kept getting lost".
In 1929, within two years of Lindbergh's feat, Brecht had seized upon it for the first of his four 'Lehrstucke'didactictic pieces') with Weill, using a proletarian chorus to hail the epic journey in a cantata for radio entitled The Lindbergh Flight.
Look closely into the deeply didactic magnificence of the pieces.
