Except for a few acid exchanges between Cheney and Powell, who comes off better than he deserves, the meetings feel like scenes from a didactic school play: this is how we went wrong.
After a clumsy and didactic beginning — in which every scene ends with Mark Isham's score screaming "This Is Important!" in Dolby — the movie settles into a solid, square rhythm.
Amid these scenes – some dramatic, some didactic – are the original songs of Noble Sissle (Henry and Eubie Blankk (Dixon), choreographed in kinetic, hard-striking fashion by the tap mastermind Savion Glover.
While these story lines and scenes might strike us as rather didactic, it is still positive in that the clear implication is that if a gay male is to have sex, he ought to use protection.
The images, which depicted scenes from the Bible, were the least didactic series of church frescoes I'd ever seen.
The scroll illustrates, through a series of individual scenes separated by the text of a didactic Confucian poem, proper behaviour for court ladies.
Mr. Rushing uses a narrator, Victor (a debonair Abdur-Rahim Jackson), to guide us through these scenes, but the effect is an oddly didactic one, as if the piece had been created for a history workshop.
Mr. Davies used the same philosophy when Captain Jack came on the scene in "Doctor Who" — make it entertaining, not didactic.
What we never see is Bush's cunning; many scenes with the inner circle of advisers feel like a didactic school play.
The scene is, in one obvious respect, something of a didactic illustration of rape as an instrument of war, but it's also undeniably and rightly disturbing.
