didactic
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As it rollicks along, piling romantic subplots onto the rampaging-outlaws tale, it comes across as a somewhat didactic folk fable, or an inspirational but surface-skimming Wild West cartoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Promising Young Woman” is not a compare-and-contrast film, where overly didactic morality coaching encourages the viewer to say, “Ah, yes, now I understand rape culture.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Screwball humor often runs through the pieces; they indulge in abstraction and never skew didactic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Then he continued with his discussion in the same didactic tone as before.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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