Sentence examples for serious didactic from inspiring English sources
The poets Ennius, Lucilius, and Horace had introduced fables into their poems, but Phaedrus considered himself a genuine, pioneering artist whose poems, combining charm with a serious didactic purpose, were assured of immortality.
David Lehman, explaining his choice of two poems by Mr. Violi for inclusion in "The Oxford Book of American Poetry," singled out "his wit, his ability to find the poetic resonance of nonpoetic language, his deadpan and his ability to get serious ideas across without didactic earnestness".
The genre had its beginnings in the work of the French dramatists Alexandre Dumas fils and Émile Augier, who adapted the then-popular formula of Eugène Scribe's "well-made play" to serious subjects, creating somewhat simplistic, didactic thesis plays on subjects such as prostitution, business ethics, illegitimacy, and female emancipation.
That striking creation, and his refusal to give in to any hint of the didactic or the predictable, affirms his position as a writer worth serious attention.
So he's in trouble if he gets too serious, in trouble if he leaves a loophole in a lyric, in trouble if he's too bleak or didactic, in trouble if all he wants to do is think about girls in their summer clothes (though he's actually thinking about mortality and loneliness).
Serious games create opportunities to develop this competency, which can be used as a self-directed learning strategy to complement existing didactic learning and simulation-based strategies.
History is essentially didactic.
He becomes momentarily didactic.
