Sentence examples for got didactic from inspiring English sources

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Sure, it annoyed her when he got didactic and made her feel talked down to.

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"These shows can get didactic".

But while this film, in certain circumstances, could be argued to be a tribute to vocational devotion or a paean to rural life, to me it appeared to be utterly disinterested in conveying a message; too fascinated by the glory in the quotidian to care about getting didactic.

When they get too didactic, allegories turn boring, but when they veer too far from didacticism they get lost.

The bare-knuckle phrases grow didactic calluses.

Take didactic courses.

Orwell almost certainly got this eye for didactic detail from Tolstoy.

No one is better at alerting us to influences with such gossipy familiarity: just as Orwell "almost certainly" got his "eye for didactic detail from Tolstoy," Wood tells us, Ian McEwan in turn "learned quite a lot about narrative stealth and the control of disgust from Orwell".

JENNA KRAJESKI: I think that this is where Koja gets a little didactic — by enthusiastically deeming Hazel the "cool" one because she lacks the signifiers of wealth and imminent success (fancy bracelets, fancy schools) and condemning Julia for being fraudulent in her perfection, she's saying it's better to be self-actualized than perfect.

Michael Billington of this parish, a keen Shavian, wonders how "the idea has got about that Shaw is a dated, didactic old windbag with little to offer us today, when in fact he anticipated every theatrical trend of the 20th century".

She goes on: "We are trying to get away from a didactic teaching style, and classical music is seen as didactic".

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