Sentence examples for didactic statement from inspiring English sources

Or it may be a novel that, because of an uncontainable concern or anger with something taking place in the real world, the novelist — to his shame — made less of an entertainment than usual, more of a sermon or homiletic or didactic statement — the production of such things not really being the novelist's job.

Are we to take it literally as a general didactic statement?

In the scenario provided there has not been a clear didactic statement regarding the forgoing of LST by the patient.

But then Brooks's attack on paraphrase is itself paraphrased: "Brooks emphasizes that it is not the purpose of a poem to produce a statement, a proposition, a didactic lesson or message".

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.

A bonding of antagonists is articulately summed up, debate-like, in a didactically determined concluding statement, a rote substitute for a dramatically driven curtain scene.

A child who is prepared to catch Alex's meaning when she exclaims, early on, that " 'Cinderella' is... about karma!," is perhaps also prepared to cock an eyebrow at such an arguable statement of didactic intent.

The statements were neither didactic nor contrived to convince.

We selected two excerpts from the television show House, and one from Gray's Anatomy and featured them in conjunction with a brief didactic presentation of the Kalamazoo consensus statement on doctor-patient communication.

But many of the students who attended Professor Xia's Institutional Economics class one recent evening said they appreciated his unfettered speaking style, even if some of his statements struck them as didactic.

When appropriate, didactic sections were summarized with recap statements at the end of the section.