It is highly didactic, and the reader speedily loses interest in whatever the eponymous hero happens to believe at any time. |
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In order not to sound too didactic or pedantic, the lecturer added anecdotes and personal comments. |
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This didactic function tended to diminish many characteristics of individual style. |
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The reductiveness is not didactic, as it is with John Cage when he induces us to look at nuances that are usually overlooked. |
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But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic. |
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I rewrote it several years ago and when I went back to it, it had this really didactic preachy ending and it was just awful. |
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In theatre terms, the plays are didactic and are prone to long impassioned declamatory speeches. |
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Few of our didactic programs are taught on an interdisciplinary basis with the other health sciences. |
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The clinical curriculum is intended to apply didactic content into the patient care setting and promote critical thinking. |
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Both clinical and didactic courses were taught primarily by pharmacy faculty, and rarely by medicine faculty. |
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With the exception perhaps of Tales of Burning Love, there are few contemporary novels with a wholly didactic religious purpose. |
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In West Africa, didactic tales and tales of magic with moral endings are very popular. |
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Leake used didactic approaches to teach the surveyors how to administer questionnaires and register oral responses. |
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Otherwise, I would have created only didactic films for educational television. |
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He is still as purposefully didactic as ever, using the genre of educational information posters to inform us of our own miseducation. |
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The Korean tale, thus, has a stronger didactic and moral character than similar tales. |
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The training consisted of didactic instruction and observation of live family therapy sessions. |
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This individual could provide much of the didactic instruction, but others should contribute to the training program. |
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A more didactic type of prose, designed to inform and convince, was practised by Arnold, Carlyle, Macaulay, and others. |
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One implication of the classical approach to moral education is that law has a didactic element. |
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He was greatly interested in teaching for its own sake, and his didactic skill found an outlet in a whole stream of books. |
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This type of orientation program accentuates clinical practice and includes limited didactic instruction. |
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The general lack of biographical and didactic information within the exhibition clouded these issues further. |
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The books written by Richardson and his followers accordingly became known as moral or didactic novels. |
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Thank you for a rewarding educational, didactic, competitive memorable week! |
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Robert Coles's sketch about his fifth-grade teacher is tiresomely didactic. |
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It is best to adopt a collaborative approach rather than a didactic or paternalistic manner. |
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Although the prose is clear and readable it is also assertive, didactic and sometimes patronising. |
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While these and other sociopolitical themes inform her writing, Hansen's books are not didactic. |
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The text sometimes verges on the didactic, but then you have to consider both the intended audience and the size. |
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He became more aggressive and personal, more didactic, more accusatory, more moralistic. |
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You could probably even sneak in your revolutionary politics without sounding didactic and patronizing. |
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When Welsh explores these themes too literally, the results can be overly didactic. |
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It's heavy stuff, but the idea-rich tale unfolds its philosophy in a way that manages to neatly skirt pedantic style and didactic tone. |
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This didactic approach towards teaching history has made people look at it as a pain rather than a joy. |
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General education also has been described as overemphasizing rote instruction and didactic teaching. |
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We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate. |
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As a Marxist, he developed a popular and didactic cinema influenced by American and Soviet cinema. |
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The topic uses approximately three 50-minute didactic lectures and an hour of student presentation on a case history. |
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We're not didactic, and we're not literalists, and we don't take a particular stance that aligns with any party. |
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In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting. |
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Their didactic import encompasses salient aspects of Buddhist doctrine, especially the traditional notion of human transience. |
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If the Reformation chorales were anything, they were didactic and homiletical. |
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The biggest point of deviation is that Bombay tended to be overly and almost tastelessly didactic. |
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During the yearlong exhibition, didactic programs are offered for schoolchildren. |
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The English playwright has made an impressive career producing a bevy of hard-hitting, didactic and experimental plays. |
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Regrettably, such dialectics piled on the post-punk jumble are too didactic to warrant repeat listenings, even at grad-school shindigs. |
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Bick spends too much time on the minutiae of the ride itself and at times strains to be didactic, which is unnecessary with such a good story. |
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Oliver Twist draws most overtly on the model of the didactic tracts by providing negative monitory examples. |
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The eviction similarly feels too didactic to be dramatic and too staged to be convincingly informative. |
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Long characterised as a didactic brainbox, Shaw, at his best, was a displaced poet. |
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Thus, the didactic purpose of the original project dissolved in a welter of abstruse, sentimental versifying. |
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His work on the Calabar bean provides didactic and practical routes for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds. |
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To my editorial consternation, he has no objection to being seen as didactic in his novels. |
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Indeed, in outline it may sound worthy and didactic, grim but Good For You, but the reality is very different. |
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner. |
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Because of their varied backgrounds, these teachers and professionals often use different theoretical and applied didactic and pedagogic practices. |
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Lifelong colleague and friend Maurice Bejart sent his adieux with the lighthearted and didactic La Barre, a celebration of hard work and discipline. |
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As such, the work alludes to the reciprocal nature of relationship and manages to state its case clearly without being didactic, sentimental or completely unfunny. |
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His style was didactic, often patronising, and the jokes were thick-cut. |
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The reason for this is that the Sain label had the didactic purpose of supporting the then resurgent Welsh nationalism by releasing records entirely in the Welsh language. |
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A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic. |
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The mojo tales are variedly frightening, mysterious, tongue-in-cheek, curious, exciting, didactic and deceptively simplistic, but almost always interesting. |
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The large didactic labels and text panels, photographs, and photomurals greatly increased one's understanding of the contexts of the objects on display. |
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Taken as a whole, the criticism produced by the Men of Letters throughout the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century was dauntingly didactic. |
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Many schools seem to include both didactic sessions and practice sessions with simulated patients. |
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Later didactic murals on town-hall staircases and library walls tended to be executed on canvas and then stuck up, rather than laboriously painted in situ. |
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Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder? |
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I politely disagree with the assertion that it was didactic and lengthy. |
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From the perspective of promoting human rights, is it desirable for the judiciary to have donned the didactic roles of pedagogues for democracy and constitutionalism? |
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Because of the public funding, there was a conservative style and often a moral or didactic message in the films that were made at the Film Board. |
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He shared Telemann's gift for readable didactic prose and something of Telemann's sheer musical graphomania. |
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This writing, in its pronounced attention to cultural grotesqueries, is alive with didactic intention. |
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Hesiod's Works and Days, a didactic poem about farming life, also includes the myths of Prometheus, Pandora, and the Five Ages. |
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It was a didactic grammar based on printed and manuscript materials accumulated by his predecessors in the same field of research. |
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Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness. |
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It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning. |
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When he talks about his AYS performers, who range in age from 18 to 25, there is nothing paternal or didactic in Treger's tone. |
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Some essays are coolheaded, some shake with hysteria, some are memoirish, others didactic. |
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I'd say by eliminating all the scut work, we are probably still getting the same amount of education in the operating room and didactic teaching. |
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Contract awarded for purchase of food pyramid didactic, corresponding to health promotion. |
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The History of the English Church and People has a clear polemical and didactic purpose. |
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Avienus made somewhat inexact translations into Latin of Aratus' didactic poem Phaenomena. |
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We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature. |
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Their emphasis on morality appealed to Shaw, who rejected the idea of art for art's sake, and insisted that all great art must be didactic. |
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Geared towards a predominately 'tween female-audience with an emphasis on math and science, this book comes across as smart rather than didactic or pedantic. |
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They are naturally in touch with the collective unconscious, and will develop their own deeper understanding without explicit morals or didactic explanations. |
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Historians would also invent and compose speeches for didactic purposes. |
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Euphues is a didactic discourse on the dangers of romantic love but the Euphuistic style gets its name from the elevated and Latinate poetic diction attributed to John Lyly. |
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Family friend Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley had great faith in Potter's tale, recast it in didactic verse, and made the rounds of the London publishing houses. |
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The term is often distinguished from didactic literature such as fables, but its relationship with other traditional stories, such as legends and folktales, is more nebulous. |
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