And once again she has produced a lumpy hodge-podge of a book: a novel that's didactic, at times intriguing but in the end thoroughly unpersuasive.
"I try not to do it in a way that is didactic," she said.
Like all of the Soul Center albums, the new one is didactic, meant to prove that minimalism need not be a dead end or a retreat from the wider world of pop music.
The cbap are didactic poems that were written by monks and used for moral instruction.
Not that Gantos is didactic.
This is partly because their role is didactic: they are there to show that an Iranian love story can barely be written, and have no quiddity as literary characters.
Which is not to say that "Grand Illusion" is didactic, though it is, like much of the art of its era, unapologetic about its social concerns and political implications.
Based on this analysis of the material provided by the interviews and the focus group we constructed a model that encompasses the variety of experiences the doctors advanced and that is didactically adequate and easily applicable in training sessions.
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Davis told me, "It's hard for people to see us beyond narratives that are didactic.
