Sentence examples for didactic stories from inspiring English sources

They don't start from a childhood fear, conflict or question -- as the best didactic stories do -- but from apathy.

The Jicarilla Apache divide their didactic stories into sacred and secular, telling them at night during the winter, with a break at midnight for a festive meal.

From then on, he published didactic stories and one-act plays for children, including the story "Luo Wenying de gushi" (1952; "The Story of Luo Wenying").

5. Read several of Aesop's fables, or other didactic stories, and write and illustrate your own story for young people where the moral is about gossip.

(Ages 5 to 8) Sometimes didactic stories are just what an anxious child getting ready for a camp overnight needs in order to be brave enough to pack a special stuffed animal.

They are all didactic stories… some people were needed from time to time to say certain things to us, humans.

"Madame Bovary" isn't really a didactic story of a woman who is tragically stuck in a bad marriage — though there is enough of that in the novel so that generations of college freshmen can spin essays about the bad old days and the subjugation of women.

"Madame Bovary" isn't really a didactic story of a woman who is tragically stuck in a bad marriage though there is enough of that in the novel so that generations of college freshmen can spin essays about the bad old days and the subjugation of women.

Goethe's "Novelle" is one of his late works, from 1828; it's a quasi-Biblical, didactic story about a princess whom a young squire rescues from a tiger; when, moments later, a lion is said to be approaching, a rustic family implores the noble party to spare it, claiming that the songs of their private, quasi-Christian devotions will suffice to tame the beast.

Even the most didactic narrative films traffic mainly in feeling and story, leaving granular analysis of a many-faceted subject to essayists and debaters.

A century ago, "The Three Little Pigs" was still a didactic "nursery story" (although considerably less priggish than the average cautionary tale).