Sentence examples for they were didactic from inspiring English sources

They were didactic films, for and about young people.

They were didactic texts meant to be read as cautionary tales.

The stories didn't seem remotely exotic, whether they were didactic folk parodies, as with one written by Sholem Aleichem; latter-day folk exegesis, as with one by Sholem Asch; or nearly impenetrable Kabbalistic allegory, as with several by Der Nister.

They are didactic and derivative, yet fresh with the tone and life-style of the Quattrocento (the 1400s).

Whether the photographs are pointing to nature, pointing to colors, pointing to sex, pointing to God, or pointing to art, they're didactic.

Nonetheless, ultimately they are didactic tools.

They can be "didactic, crass or plain boring," he writes.

Museum officials were leery of fetishizing Woodstock as a big party, Mr. Lawrence said, but neither did they want to be didactic.

But if they were merely didactic — simple indictments of the system or hymns to the nobility of the proletariat — the postwar films of Visconti and De Sica would now most likely be regarded as historical curiosities rather than as artistic touchstones.

But if Mr. Wiseman had a reformist axe to grind in the first two (he now concedes they were "too didactic"), he soon began to baffle his anti-Establishment fans by the even-handed treatment of police in "Law and Order" (1969) and by the portrait of the Army's professionalism in "Basic Training" (1971).

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.