as in moralizing
marked by or given to preaching moral values
the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion
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The tone regarding slavery and race relations is unflinching, historically accurate, complicated and matter-of-fact without being didactic.
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The succession of 30 comparisons is relentlessly didactic, leaving little room for affect or interpretation.
—Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Later episodes, some of which focus on innocent people, including a deaf victim (Rodney Burford) and a Good Samaritan neighbor (Niecy Nash-Betts), have a didactic bent.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The succession of 30 comparisons is relentlessly didactic, leaving little room for affect or interpretation.
—Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
That exuberant levity has clearly been calculated as a counterweight to the subject, which is explicitly a feminist fable and could so easily have felt didactic.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Later episodes, some of which focus on innocent people, including a deaf victim (Rodney Burford) and a Good Samaritan neighbor (Niecy Nash-Betts), have a didactic bent.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Didactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didactic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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