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didactic

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1. didactic - Noun

2. didactic - Adjective

3. didactic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Didactical

A treatise on teaching or education.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. Joan D. Vinge

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. David Attenborough

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic. Brit Marling

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? Otto Rank

I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form. Shirin Neshat

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