didacticism
Americannoun
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Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024
So even if Novic and Fell tilt toward didacticism, it’s for good reason.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022
“People are resistant to didacticism, and disaster is a spectacle — the genre is so established it puts a barrier between you and the consequences,” she said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021
Its dizzying layers of satire and style tend to overwhelm directors, who as if operating with a Wikipedia understanding easily succumb to visual clichés, vicious affect and didacticism.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2021
You will remember that when discussing Richardson and Fielding, the first English novelists, I was at pains to show how carefully they sheltered their works behind the claim of this very didacticism.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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