didacticism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2022
He’s too rigorous a thinker to fall back on facile antagonisms between art and commerce, and too generous an entertainer to saddle a zigzagging shaggy-dog story with didacticism.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022
So even if Novic and Fell tilt toward didacticism, it’s for good reason.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Capturing that movement required a fusion of political didacticism, unabashed melodrama, stage supernaturalism and sitcom beats.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021
The proneness toward moralizing, toward formal didacticism, can be best of all corrected by the use of choice literature.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
