He tends toward didactic speeches, but the actors smooth these over nicely.
Castro worked at all hours of day and night (mostly night), made long and didactic speeches, and was rarely out of his 4x4, ceaselessly travelling from one end of the country to another.
In didactically crafted speeches or in media interviews, he radically departs from mainstream politicians by explaining that the economic crisis is systemic, that is to say that it is due to our flawed political choices and priorities.
"Christ!" I thought when I heard this, "What am I supposed to do with that?" In the course of our interview Lynch had made (I felt) a series of didactic yet meaningless speeches of varying length, none of which lent itself to illustrating any particular point.
But there is no escaping the didactic feeling of these speeches or the sense that Mr. Mitchell is straining to create a hulking physical presence, with his open-legged stance and wide-armed gestures.
For those who watched him carefully, this mayor was perhaps most himself during his budget and state-of-the-city speeches -- didactic but entertaining lectures of up to two hours that he delivered without notes, controlling the stage like the prosecuting attorney he used to be.
She speaks in slow, didactic cadences and peppers her speech with cultural-studies jargon and New Age psychobabble.
Atticus's speech -- a didactic thesis statement sitting at the center of To Kill a Mockingbird -- is meant to remind the jury, and the reader, that while some citizens are disadvantaged according to society's rules, the legal system is a great, noble leveler.
Benjamin Pelteson has a lot of heavy lifting as Louis, the soul-searching cynic who rationalizes dumping Prior after his diagnosis and jumping into an affair with Joe Pitt. Louis also represents Kushner the self-doubting polemicist and Pelteson does a good job naturalizing the didactic nature of Louis's speeches.
Betjeman characterised Heber's style as consciously literary, with careful choices of adjectives and vivid figures of speech: "poetic imagery was as important as didactic truth".
Yet although the political speeches come across as overly explanatory and didactic, Glen Wallace plays the young idealist John Graham with subtle conviction.
