Sentence examples for its didactic from inspiring English sources

But it falls apart as art in its didactic treatment of civil rights.

Here "Alphabet Mystery" shows its didactic roots: each letter chooses an object starting with its sound.

By the end of the movie, the n-word loses its didactic value as a sign of racism.

What makes this First Golden Age so particularly distinct is, in fact, its didactic and moral purpose.

When the novel shakes off its didactic tendencies, the results are moving snapshots of its characters' lost worlds.

The movie is unabashedly political, but Mr. Loach and Mr. Laverty's good-humored, compassionate realism and Ms. Padilla's buoyant performance lift the film above its didactic impulses.

("The Big Short" is ever so slightly more idiosyncratic because of its brief, didactic celebrity interludes; for its come-from-behind pursuit of "Spotlight," let's say that it's the Rubio in the Oscar race).

"Manly Games" is Mr. Svankmajer's first piece of unambiguous social commentary, but its heavily didactic nature is made tolerable by humor: it's easily his funniest film.

Another problem was to keep the adult's narrating voice explicit without its sounding didactic in recounting the imaginary historical events.

"Milk" is another amazing history lesson, but its fairly didactic depictions of gay sexual activity will have your closeted Uncle Richard wondering if you are trying to tell him something.

"La Clemenza di Tito," by contrast, seems staid and dated, its plot didactic and unsophisticated: The uncomplicatedly beneficent Roman emperor Titus uncovers an assassination plot against him planned by his close friend and fiancée, and he pardons them both in a grand final show of forgiveness and reconciliation.