Little Women and Robinson Crusoe are at once didactically moral and highly poetical.
Yes, these are everyday words – but they are learned in conversation and from reading, not by being didactically taught by teachers.
A few days in Provence, in what the French so didactically declare "one of the prettiest villages in France", has finally taught me that trying to recapture my Gallic dreamworld is like trying to embrace fog.
Since the authors of the Gospels rearranged the material to suit their own needs, it must be assumed that earlier Christian teachers had also organized stories about Jesus didactically.
There is a mildly witty dress designed in collaboration with Roy Lichtenstein for the first Florence Biennale; examples of Versace's didactically outré but still masterly leatherwork, of his menswear for a special clientele, and of his sometimes regal couture (a queen by definition is a dominatrix).
(A few years later, Jean Cocteau, looking for an actress with the features and aplomb of a Greek statue, chose Miller, who had no experience onscreen, for the lead role in his didactically outré first film, "The Blood of a Poet").
If this weren't the case, her fable would be not the masterpiece that it is, but a clinical case study of masochism, author's and subject's, in the form of a mildly heretical, comically exalted, didactically perverse, and ultimately banal piece of French art porn, like the volume here under review.
The novella ends, somewhat didactically, with the artist regaining his pacifist resolve, but there is no missing the fact that he has arrived at it almost entirely through weakness.
Her original distinction was to have rescued the "New Woman" of the Belle Époque not only from her frumpy bloomers and didactically mannish tailleurs but from her status as an object of ridicule to the "Old Men" of either sex who feared her modernity.
"Aloha" brings together two stories that connect only coincidentally but converge didactically.
The adults in the novel help Billy and his younger sister, Sal, in the same way that Henkes helps his child readers, not didactically but organically, by recognizing their vulnerability, sanctioning their anxiety, and encouraging them to face challenges with confidence and ingenuity.
