didactic
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Readers may at times feel overwhelmed by Mr. Hoffman’s research, including pages of statistics and a tone that can at times be didactic or hectoring due to the urgency of his environmental case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Determining how much didactic information is insightful and sufficient, and how much constitutes excessive artsplaining, is a delicate, ongoing challenge for museums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
“The Drama” has proven controversial and has been criticized as too thinly written by some viewers and critics who want answers and meaning laid out in legible, didactic lessons built into the script.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 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
For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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