The gallery mounted a series of didactic exhibitions — e.g.
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Diet culture is really didactic and can feel really oppressive.
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And that, my fellow didactic dweebs, makes me really angry.
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Fortunately, Hicks gets the message across without being particularly didactic.
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A tone consumers perceive as didactic could be a turnoff.
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But these themes come across as didactic rather than moving.
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There is quite a bit of awkward, didactic dialogue here.
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Mostly Mario and strategy games that my father thought were didactic.
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"Gotta Serve Somebody" was the closest thing to a didactic statement.
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"The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" is purposefully, often painfully, didactic.
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His use of puns is a way to avoid becoming didactic.
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The conductor's avowedly anti-didactic, deliberately neutral style came sensationally alive.
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Never didactic, but nonetheless provocative, it's an exceptional work of nonfiction.
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What emerges is a story as didactic as it is brave.
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The Hate U Give is a didactic issues novel for teenagers.
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Who doesn't love a little didactic infanticide with their hot dog binge?
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There is finally an energy to the scene, freed from didactic instruction.
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It was in this didactic spirit that Mr Obama defended his record.
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This tradition can seep into a didactic presentation style among tour guides.
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And when Watch Dogs 22 engages with these identities, it's never didactic.
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After graduation, he initially produced "didactic art" consisting of signs and inscriptions.
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And Mr. Hall's reverential adaptation cherishes the original screenplay's sputtering, didactic spiels.
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They are meant to be restorative and instructive, without veering too didactic.
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The wall label becomes an essential part of the work, a didactic lesson.
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"The Wife" is not a great film—it is too obvious and didactic.
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This piece is a crucial reminder of the didactic purpose behind Blind Vision.
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Who or what that is remains open; didactic is not Mr. Brown's style.
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The lyrics, tackling revelations, decisions, and fallouts, are often brutal, but not didactic.
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"Those were much more didactic games than any of these are," Giles says.
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The wordiest of the four books also skirts closest to the didactic edge.
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I think of the pieces exhibited as being less didactic and more pleasing.
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The didactic nature of many of the orations makes me think the latter.
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Hearst: It's not really a didactic song that would rally people to action.
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While obsolescence and absurdity are themes running through his work, he is never didactic.
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Far from being didactic, she begins to ask us what we're going to do.
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"They are frightened of sounding didactic and telling people how to eat," she says.
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The beauty is that the message, by nature of the music's form, isn't didactic.
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Part of the joy in this kind of storytelling is that it's not didactic.
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Some of these books are didactic, pairing virginity loss stories with epilogues by sexperts.
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" The Morgan's presentation underscores this process, titling a didactic about the Poésies "Balancing Act.
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Beyond its didactic value, a fatberg functions as a kind of collective self-portrait.
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And yet, despite the cris de coeur animating the paintings, they never felt didactic.
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But his "Pinocchio" is less didactic and censorious than the film and the novel.
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It has come to exercise a potent didactic function over the past several decades.
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Even the writing style changes for these chapters, becoming less nostalgic and more didactic.
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And yet, to his credit, Robinson never takes a didactic stance in his work.
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Yet it never feels preachy or didactic, because it stays so laser-focused on Starr.
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Just the right mix of didactic and humorous, with America punished for it's financial hubris.
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Singapore's schools have long held a reputation for didactic teaching, rote learning and academic brilliance.
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" Magdy says of his work, "It's not meant to be understood in a didactic way.
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It does, however, veer toward the simplistic if not overly didactic on the curatorial side.
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As the gig progresses and the room grows sweatier, the lyricism too becomes more didactic.
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That is the reason why we have decided to do this as a didactic element.
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The museum is overwhelming in its didactic information, which is presented in visually provocative ways.
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Mr. Simon has always steered clear of direct political messages, determined not to be didactic.
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The messages, largely in English, have ranged from didactic to deeply personal, polite to racy.
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Something similar happens in "Pomegranate," when the text gets didactic and the humanity bleeds away.
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"Touching Reality" (2012), by the icily didactic Swiss installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn , is carefully obscene.
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They are overly didactic, telling viewers how to feel, how to interpret, how to respond.
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Reviewers often found his novels fact-stuffed, overexplained, didactic, and lacking in vibrancy and humor.
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Ride Your Wave's central metaphor is often didactic, with the film repeatedly hammering it home.
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Though she writes intensely political stories for young adult readers, there's nothing didactic to her approach.
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As an abstract and non-didactic form, dance music has long been a genre for dreamers.
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And if the show begins to get a bit too didactic, it quickly, deftly, switches tone.
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The new, the original, and the didactic are needed to make a great piece of art.
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Gary Ross's blunt, occasionally didactic film honors the complexity of this fascinating, little-known historical episode.
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Like Mr. A, the Question spoke in a stilted, didactic vernacular akin to a philosophical tract's.
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For all its efforts to involve the audience, however, "1968" often feels too didactic by half.
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"Octopus Vacuum" mirrors the didactic art in The Hidden World, relaying Oist narratives through its iconography.
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If all of this makes Howards End sound a little dry and didactic, well, it is.
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We wanted this first gallery to be an experience rather than a didactic look at jewelry.
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We're not heavily didactic and totally directive, but we are introducing new knowledge and rich language.
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Some critics found it dour and didactic and some audiences apparently found its sadness off-putting.
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In addition to its catering services and cooking classes, Woke Foods also has a didactic focus.
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Less strident and didactic than anything Rosler has done, Conner's collages can be simultaneously sharp and whimsical.
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I didn't want to write something that was really didactic or that hit you over the head.
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The argument between Elwood and Turner is so binary as to feel almost didactic in the beginning.
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We can see what bothered Weber's detractors in her ambitious didactic melodrama, Where Are All My Children?
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In Morales's and Harouni's offerings, aesthetics and social consciousness overlap, but in no way are they didactic.
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It's not didactic music, but when it comes on you'll know what to do: dance and dream.
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Politics figure front and center in the lyrics, but the group takes pains not to be didactic.
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His voice is instructive but not didactic; opinionated but not at all polemical — in fact, anti-polemical.
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This is one of Barboza's strengths: he brings together social consciousness and aesthetic precision without becoming didactic.
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The plot takes a didactic turn, with the writer-director hanging a question mark over the ending.
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The rapid-fire jokes don't all land, the supporting characters can be cartoonish and the satire didactic.
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That Ms. Farber overstates the didactic is more evident here than in the previous production I saw.
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Other books for teenagers existed at the time, but they tended toward the light and the didactic.
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While Lin's installation is more visually compelling than "Extinction Gong," she ultimately adopts a more didactic approach.
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The first is a didactic treatise on the different ways to categorize art, including color and size.
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Galarraga's lyrics aren't didactic, instead serving like the kind of casual musings that are taken best as punchlines.
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It is not a didactic image; it is composed more like a Botticelli painting or a mannerist allegory.
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Her themes are clear — racism, the frenetic pace of 000st-century life — but Abney's approach is never didactic.
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Message-laden without being didactic, much of the art by the emerging artists functions within this conceptual framework.
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A didactic and even confrontational form of expression may have come naturally for some in those art groups.
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The didactic tone of her work is most evident in the programs she has made for Pakistani television.
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It was a didactic approach, at odds with our stereotypes of private collectors as pleasure seekers or investors.
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Some people felt he had become arrogant, too didactic, too forceful, more suited to talking than to listening.
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In a very poignant sense, Peters shows us how pathetic we are without ever becoming shrill or didactic.
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The series, rendered in a Second Life-like virtual world, mixes history, futurism, and humor without seeming didactic.
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It's a didactic display, but one that doesn't instruct as much as provide scientific context for these paintings.
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Phish songs are never topical; the lyrics are way too elliptical and odd to advance any didactic message.
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When that becomes apparent, more than halfway through the performance, the play takes a turn for the didactic.
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"What is great about a show like this is that it's free from a didactic theme," Fuentes says.
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Even "Pamela," prudish and didactic as it is, feels far less limited or quaint than we might expect.
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Never didactic, it nevertheless suggested, through tense, delicate music, musings on language, storytelling, social media and artistic ethics.
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These share something with conceptual works of Joseph Kosuth and Mel Bochner, but are more whimsical and less didactic.
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Thus, stripped of their utilitarian and didactic essence, letters evolve into emblems of sociopolitical mockery on a global scale.
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Probably, I should be happy about this — better to be too open to interpretation than too didactic, after all.
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Her images are the least didactic in the exhibition, instead capturing brief moments of visual poetry amongst the turmoil.
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With the Ladybird Expert Series, launched in 2017, the publisher is hoping that didactic material will yield similar results.
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Staff will also create a didactic plaque on or near the monument explaining the rationale for the sculpture's removal.
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For me, the installation's extensive written annotations lead to a larger question about this kind of didactic museum exhibition.
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Far from nineteenth-century "domestic fiction," which was often didactic and sentimental, this writing is erudite, ironic, and experimental.
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She shifts in this way from the didactic to the fabulist — and at her best moments melds the two.
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The novel does not shy away from grappling with America's history of oppression, but never veers into the didactic.
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Television can also have a didactic purpose -- one that seeks to educate as much as it wants to entertain.
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And its dichotomous nature matches the didactic thrust of a show that celebrates the importance of not being binary.
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For all its moral seriousness and formal ingenuity, "Course of Empire" never really rises above being a didactic machine.
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At times, it can feel obvious, but the meditative nature of the dance saves it from becoming too didactic.
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"Gentefied" has a lot to say, and it can turn didactic in its urge to say all of it.
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She was searching for a medium that was less static, less didactic, more creatively liberating in its conceptual apparatus.
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The moral tax for this charmed, craft-cocktail-fueled New York is the openly didactic nature of the show.
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"Sunnyside" is about trying to navigate the United States citizenship process, but its aims are more comic than didactic.
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The show's title is didactic and self-evident, but it's true that Rosso was obsessed with light and experimentation.
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The work is impactful, presenting in a surprisingly effective didactic form the stories of those we tend to leave behind.
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Because the curators respect the spirit of understatement, the exhibition is no more didactic than Buchanan's restrained and elliptical work.
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This truss, exposed along the interior rooms of the house, acts as a sculptural and didactic element throughout the home.
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Without being even remotely didactic, Erkmen's work also feels exceptionally relevant in this fractious time of warring camps and ideologies.
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Although the show isn't didactic, its politics feel vitally relevant in a time of bald-faced white supremacy and discrimination.
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Grander, more didactic ambitions underpin a second book, "How Democracies Die", by two Harvard professors, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.
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It cannot have been easy to imbue these didactic tirades (particularly the ones from the 1910s and '20s) with life.
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Operating before these ideas came to light, Vanderpoel seems to see her grids primarily "as a didactic tool," Bruton theorizes.
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Again, the movie is specific and personal rather than didactic about its messages, which makes them go down much smoother.
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Daniel: Yeah, and if you're trying, you wind up producing what is probably emotional porn—a kind of didactic music.
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For this reason, they are often unable to read work by artists of color unless this work is loudly didactic.
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The political warfare in the Cleves family is rather too starkly laid out, and the novel can become earnestly didactic.
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One significant figure she adds is Sierra Jones (Alexandria Danielle King), a community organizer whose purpose seems almost purely didactic.
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Trinity-wise, that counts as the son story, and while it's didactic, it is the least opaque of the bunch.
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Instead, it's an eco-fable devoid of didactic overkill, delivered with energy, winking mischief, unobtrusive effects and a skilled cast.
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For too long, U.S. engagement with the region has been based on didactic homilies about human rights and related matters.
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If that and some of the show's other contextualizing gambits sound didactic, even alienating in the Brechtian manner, fear not.
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Sometimes didactic, the novel still springs surprises, as it makes clear its message: ours is not a post-racial world.
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Far from offering another didactic approach to lifestyle, Haal wants the wearer to make what they will of his designs.
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The exhibition is didactic and for those with the interest to read and watch, it is truly a revelatory experience.
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The show has found a way to be didactic — to have old fashioned morals — without really feeling like it's preaching.
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This lively half-hour drama examines ideas of identity, sexuality, and class consciousness, but never in a way that feels didactic.
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The show features didactic, seminal, and obscure artworks by Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, Cady Noland, Kori Newkirk, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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When a film starts to get didactic, that's a different type of film and not the kind I am interested in.
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A hallway splits the show in two with a didactic installation dedicated to what life was like for Americans in 1979.
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There's even a didactic panel that explain why it's wrongheaded to believe extraterrestrials created structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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This "War of the Worlds" never becomes overtly didactic on this point, preferring to let the question linger in the air.
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Still, the water rises, and one wonders if didactic information might be less impactful than, say, a fabled fiction of consequence.
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Those whose work was never political or didactic are apprehensive about being framed as black artists, rather than as just artists.
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Equally challenging, for those whose aim is didactic, is finding the most fitting artistic way to raise awareness of the crisis.
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A good children's novel always contains opportunities for learning — which is not the same as didactic moralizing, since story takes precedence.
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In "La La Land," the white protagonist (Ryan Gosling) charges himself with saving jazz, but his pursuit feels loveless, didactic, abusive.
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The questions present an alternative to tech evangelism and extreme pessimism, but sometimes as a framing device they can feel didactic.
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That didactic approach — hard-edged, opaque shapes coexisting with instances of pouring — was part of my work for a long time.
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The show balances a mixture of approaches to the subject — some quite literal and didactic, others more playful and open-ended.
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Despite the entwined relationship between art and ecology in this exhibition, the curator is not aiming to be didactic about environmental issues.
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But Ms Dewey-Hagborg is not didactic, showing the positive, weird and beautiful possibilities of new technologies as well as their dangers.
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Anthropocene's non-didactic approach makes space for the viewer's own thoughts, letting them meditate on their place in the planet it's presenting.
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We thought that having students read reflections from teenage addicts would convey the seriousness of the topic without being didactic or patronizing.
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Birk's body of work is unusual in that its explicit politics don't read as overly didactic — a difficult line to walk successfully.
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Uncomfortably clunky and didactic writing undermine some of Radio Commander's pretensions to being a game with Important Things to Say About War.
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The film, with dialogue mostly in Tamil, isn't didactic but touches on the most contentious issues in Europe today — immigration and integration.
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And while the show's dialogue sometimes bends toward didactic lecture, its sheer existence on cable television feels like an act of revolution.
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At her best, Vásquez de la Horra makes work that cannot be quickly deciphered and does not seem in any way didactic.
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And, as with any story designed to send a message, there was a risk of crossing the line between uplifting and didactic.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is a character, and his hit musical is a punching bag, in Ishmael Reed's didactic play about historical correctness.
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These didactic interludes, often marked off as separate chapters, provide a charming, informative guide; the pages breathe easily, cleverly composed and uncluttered.
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Consider the Geico gecko, Progressive's Flo, Allstate's Mayhem, the didactic Professor Burke of Farmers Insurance and Peyton Manning's vocal stylings for Nationwide.
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It's a didactic moment, sure, but did I mention that it also starts with Abby fully screaming in Julia's face before fainting?
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Though many of the works allude to sociopolitical realities and global histories, they're presented less as didactic truths than as stories to intuit.
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Yet her script is direct to the point of didactic, offering only surface-level insight into an event that understandably traumatized her family.
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While some veered into overly didactic territory, those that zeroed in on a particular, often personal sense of place were the most poignant.
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Both are on view, aptly enough, alas, in "Escuela," a dull, didactic drama written and directed by the noted Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón.
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"Synonyms" is the latest full-length feature from Lapid, whose exploration of Israeli identity in his movies is politically diagnostic rather than didactic.
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But Sunday's generally leisurely hour was more enjoyable than other 'values episodes,' mainly because it largely avoided the show's tendency toward didactic explication.
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The paintings are especially interesting, because everyone knows Maoist propaganda, but there's also quite a bit of art which is much less didactic.
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But the general's relationship with Mr. Trump had become difficult, with the president bridling at what some describe as his aide's didactic style.
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Politics, history and a sense of cultural responsibility have always informed his work, usually with a touch light enough to avoid being didactic.
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"Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments" is an entertaining, sometimes poetic and unapologetically didactic concoction made up of song, science lectures and demonstrations.
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" Drollinger offered this didactic bit of exegesis: "The economy of Rome at the time of Peter's writing was one of slave and master.
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A woke Ryan Murphy is a tricky proposition: as anyone who watched late seasons of "Glee" knows, didactic camp can be a nightmare.
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The problem is not that these questions are undeserving of consideration, but that Kurosawa poses them in a didactic, simplistic, self-congratulatory manner.
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And that's how this arose, to be able to create a platform that's not didactic, but a work that allows ideas to blossom.
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This was a wise choice, presenting an exhibition that is both didactic and dynamic without feeling overwhelming, and leaving room for further exploration.
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That's because Malone's work largely takes the form of didactic games, which deliver conceptual ideas as a sneaky side effect of playing with them.
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Instead, they turned to non-WWE sanctioned titles, which mix a didactic tone with ferocious criticism of the current fallen state of the sport.
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Most of us aren't used to thinking of documentaries as anything more than didactic tools, but there's always been one big exception: concert films.
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Genre is a sneaky tool: It allows you to smuggle social commentary into a film without making it feel like such a didactic bore.
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Both the Instagram account and its accompanying Tumblr are hardly didactic; "a safe space to vent, hope, wonder + wish" is the most information provided.
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That may sound a little tame for one of theatre's famous iconoclasts, but "The Cane" is not a flat, didactic exercise in opinion-swapping.
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As amassed by Peri, these distinctive contributors create a non-didactic psychic space that is extensively thought-provoking while still being enjoyable to explore.
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In their lack of didactic information and their use of the term "primitivism" an accumulated body of readily available, considered scholarship has been ignored.
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The mix of documentary film, live performance and call to activism worked unexpectedly well, maintaining a delicate balance between didactic drive and meditative awe.
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But Sorry to Bother You is an excellent movie—never didactic more than it is charismatic—because it presents labor predicaments through black experience.
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Their dialogue satisfyingly shifts between quippy and serious, without ever becoming didactic—which would be easy in a world that requires so much exposition.
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Sensitively constructed by director Chris Bell, the film examines challenges faced by immigrants without ever feeling didactic in the way indie films often do.
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And when the comic vaudeville number "Gee, Officer Krupke" turns into a meditation on police brutality, the choice just feels overly literal and didactic.
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Staged at the troupe's second venue, the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, it manages to be true to history and affecting without seeming purely didactic.
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Yet what stood out most was an informational (though not didactic) tour through several of the composer's works for student singers and orchestral players.
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Didactic it may be, but in a crisis, as in a fire, one is grateful for even unsubtle signs marking the path of escape.
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The subtitled dialogue is supplemented by gently didactic voice-over narration, read by the British actress Daisy Ridley (also credited as an executive producer).
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Not that this "Sunday," presented in an earlier version at New York City Center last year, is in any way didactic or issue-driven.
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While he borrows the 44th President's didactic style, he lacks his lyricism and skill at weaving his life's journey into an appealing political narrative.
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Little didactic material or guidance, aside from the press release, is provided to viewers who wish to navigate the exhibition as the artist intended.
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The film, written by James Graham and directed by Toby Haynes, is itself a thumping stamp, relying heavily on eureka moments and didactic scenes.
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A Crossing program is often politically charged — taking on issues like homelessness, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and corporate personhood — without being didactic.
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It relies on didactic text and the willingness of the viewer to take the time to discover who Gonzalez was and what she accomplished.
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Yet where Grosz tends to cut the tension of an unbearable situation with humor, Douglas's animals are expressly didactic and Capistrán's pigs are plaintive.
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The book's theory section includes didactic writings by digital theorists, including a stormy essay by Hito Steyerl on the "derivative fascisms" of uninhibited global trade.
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Historically, exhibitions on Black artistic perspective are often anthropological or didactic, presented as a way to learn about a people rather than learning from them.
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Storytelling's stories are more accurately didactic fables, arguments leading to or from a specific solution for the purpose of demonstrating the correctness of that solution.
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The film isn't devoid of drama or of cultural specificity, but there's nothing dutiful or didactic (or, for that matter, especially progressive) about its content.
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"It's way to comment on something, but not have your point of video be so didactic that you're shoving it down people's throats," says Juzwiak.
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At times, in her generous attempt to share her art education, she becomes a bit didactic, but this is inevitable given how studious she is.
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Taking advantage of the lower-degree of hyper-realistic precision that the medium offers, her paintings feel more mysterious than didactic, more allegorical than forthright.
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As a team, LACE develops projects with the social and political concerns of our time at the core — with an effort not to be didactic.
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"As an IDMT-P the didactic aspect of the training improved our capabilities to deliver immediate medical care at the point of injury," said Triana.
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This "If I could do it, you can do anything" exhortation is standard inspirational speech material, so why did I not find it remotely didactic?
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The result is a long yet consistently gripping evening that is as entertaining as it is provocative and as artistically intelligent as it is didactic.
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This is where the design team — including Katherine Freer (projections), Maruti Evans (set and lights) and Luqman Brown (sound) — is most crucial, theatricalizing the didactic.
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It casts its net wide, aiming to be both entertaining and didactic, both power fantasy and a scathing critique of the warriors we fantasize about.
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Liz Lerman, a didactic choreographer who has devoted her career to community engagement through dance, is this year's recipient of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Award.
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Such an overridingly didactic mission makes the characters in "Normal" seem like interchangeable philosophical delivery systems, spouting off without the expectation of any conversational exchange.
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The film isn't too didactic with history, instead showing footage of older generations talking to the next about why they are trekking across the Badlands.
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The images are more didactic than graphic, and lay out the emotional reality of subjugation in Palestinian daily living in candid and visually symbolic terms.
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By insinuating questions into the often-didactic field of social practice, the exhibition sheds light on the multiple issues that can arise with crises and responses.
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This year at CES, Lego is bridging the gap with Boost, a basic robotics- and programming-oriented kit that's supposed to be more playful than didactic.
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Sandow Birk's investigation of US culture and politics is unusual in that its own explicit politics are not overly didactic — a difficult line to walk successfully.
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That is tougher than it might seem: The story tackles issues of familial expectations, race, class, agency and environmental justice without being either didactic or simplistic.
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"Jagat" is on the earnest and didactic side, but Mr. Perumal exhibits some assurance in his directing debut and gets a winning performance by Mr. Raj.
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This, among other qualities, makes "Beasts of No Nation" didactic, but didacticism in novels is not nearly as despised as some critics would have you think.
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That he can do so without becoming didactic is just another one of the things that make this show such a mind-and-eye boggling delight.
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Naumann's cogent and clear communication style, and his integrity concerning his professional engagements, is a valuable lesson for any art historian overly steeped in didactic thought.
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And such is Shriver's didactic use of adverbs that there is never, even for a moment, any ambiguity about who you are supposed to agree with.
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Manni Dee: I'd like to state, and I feel like this is something I'll be repeating, it's not the job of the artist to be didactic.
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But if it leans toward didactic overstatement and soap opera pulpiness, "Tamara" also delivers a surprising, intricately shaded portrait of an artist as a conflicted woman.
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Ultimately Francis must rethink everything about making shoes — a veritable existential crisis, but Varon is never heavy-handed or didactic, keeping the narrative at the fore.
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She sees Ms. Coyne's own art as "strongly feminist but not in a didactic way," adding that her sculptures have become more unabashedly "girlish" over time.
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He especially dwelt on the industry's hypocrisy, in an oddly didactic moment: You say you're woke but the companies you work for, unbelievable, Apple, Amazon, Disney.
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But a didactic interlocutor — more catalyst than realized human being, more reflector than protagonist — does not and likely cannot counterbalance the empire of slavery Varina represents.
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Even the look of the letters—deliberately plain to the point of hokiness, with old-school fonts and layout hardly changed in fifty years—is didactic.
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Never one to be didactic, entertaining, or fashionable, he is interested in knowledge and the kinds of seeing we experience, from the visible to the invisible.
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The reason Superstore never feels didactic is that the show's characters talk about these issues in the way they might come up naturally in real life.
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The exhibition, which explores how people get around, includes didactic, slick, corporate-style video installations as well as a thoughtful, if sometimes disjointed, mix of artworks.
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Gender fluidity in "Hen" mostly means seesawing between extremes, with the puppet moving from hyper-feminine to muscleman looks, and some of the political commentary feels didactic.
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You won't find a clearly chronological setup or any didactic texts here; instead, you'll find a highly conceptual, alternately cryptic and coy installation that's charged with energy.
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This buoyantly didactic show, a Soho Rep production at the Connelly Theater, takes gentle pains to remind us that our next breath could well be our last.
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It's patient, as is his wont, following the sounds and samples where they want to go rather than slicing them up and forcing them into didactic arrangements.
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Released between comedy booms, these albums were hits but also targets of a critical backlash, with Mr. Cross becoming the face of a didactic, patronizing alternative comedy.
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" She added that Mr. DiMeo's story "really evokes a moment in time, an era" — compared with the Met's own audio guides, which she said are "more didactic.
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This is, unapologetically, a children's movie, by turns gentle, thrilling and didactic, but missing the extra dimension of terror and wonder that would have transcended the genre.
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Yet the roots of the work are clear: there's something both narrative and didactic about his carved tableaux, to say nothing of their painstaking detail and execution.
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In a didactic, issues-driven show, like The Fosters or Degrassi, every episode makes an attempt to think through some new social problem that teens are facing.
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After his first few months in the role, though, he wondered if he had been a little too didactic, a little too quick to assert his authority.
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But 13 Reasons Why has consistently positioned itself as a didactic show that exists to start a conversation about the real issues that real kids are facing.
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The debt to Bertolt Brecht and his "Lehrstücke" — the didactic plays from the 1920s and 1930s that collapse the divide between stage and spectators — is immediately apparent.
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The Writing's on the Wall provided listeners with commandments, and the Charlie's Angels song was didactic in design, with lessons for the woman of the new millennium.
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Thoughtforms were being communicated to me whole, in a didactic and commanding voice that was not literally a voice, insofar as it wasn't audible to my ear.
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It is certainly amusing: a sly assault on conceptual art, disparaging the movement's didactic, text-heavy creations even as it doubles as a definitive example of one.
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These ideas do come through in the show, primarily by way of didactic text, but Wilson's theoretical framework is not where the power of the exhibition lies.
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What is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America's head, but attempting to put Captain America's words in my head.
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I'm glad that's the way that it registered, because there's nothing more irritating and unfun than some dude looking back on his life and being highly didactic.
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Under Adams's hand, colonial wallpaper or abolitionist quilt patterns act as anchors for didactic narratives, presenting first a nostalgic, collective mirror while rage simmers just beneath the surface.
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Carrying her immense knowledge lightly, never emerging as didactic or pedantic, she takes us across sodden fields and frosty meadows, through thick mist — and into the English mind.
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At a time when a lot of artists are understandably involved with making didactic political art, Vásquez de la Horra acknowledges that situation without commenting on it directly.
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But as in her previous plays, including "Intimate Apparel" and "Ruined," Ms. Nottage nimbly avoids the didactic in her exploration of the fallout from the collapse of manufacturing.
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But "The Mandibles" suffers from a common flaw of speculative fiction: Virtually every detail of the narrative serves to communicate some expository element, giving it a didactic tone.
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In the hands of a less gifted economist, this ambitious attempt to both explain the music business and use it for more didactic purposes could have been clumsy.
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All this confounding of expectations is admirable, but that doesn't necessarily equal enjoyable; in some authors' hands, subversion can be buffoonery, and admirable can be didactic and tedious.
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For example, rather than a didactic explanation of Boss Tweed's catastrophic corruption, you can gaze at the glimmer of his T-shaped diamond cufflinks, bought with city money.
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For someone who has been in politics for years, Ms. James can be surprisingly ill at ease and defensive, didactic rather than persuasive, prone to plumping her record.
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Making this kind of documentary information about secretive information-gathering entities is a thought-provoking conceptual gesture, as well as a slightly didactic bit of public-service journalism.
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But reading her stump speech as a purely didactic performance to carry her issues across to a mass public glosses over a key aspect of her political persona.
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As the novel gathers momentum toward its resolution, I know in my critical self that it becomes too heavily didactic and sweet with sentiment for our contemporary tastes.
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" Contributing to that power, Mr. Wakefield said, is the wry humor that is a Superflex signature: "They use art to introduce people to serious issues without being didactic.
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Ms. Gaignard's approach is not narrative, didactic or overtly political; she wittily employs symbols a viewer understands on a visceral level, even as a more explicit meaning remains elusive.
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What could have been an overwrought, didactic allegory about the prison industrial complex is instead a subtle, powerful portrayal of ordinary Americans and the human costs of unjust systems.
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It is thoughtful but never didactic, a show that cares as much about getting representation right as it does about making sure the audience is having a great time.
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The "big three"—Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros—are well-represented with paintings that reveal powerful narrative styles that were at once both passionate and didactic.
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While her dialogue sometimes comes off as didactic, Falco's version of Abramson reframes the sensational media stories about the case, always giving the brothers the benefit of the doubt.
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A prime mover in this initiative is Neil MacGregor, the institution's former director whose didactic skills as a lecturer and broadcaster have already redefined the role of great museums.
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"What is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America's head, but attempting to put Captain America's words in my head," Coates writes.
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His films never speak down to their audience and although they often have environmental and feminist themes they never attempt to be didactic or profess to have an answer.
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Hogarth conceived it in opposition to another didactic piece: "Beer Street," in which happy ale-hounds thrive in a civic paradise of barrel-chested, pipe-smoking peace and relaxation.
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"What is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America's head, but attempting to put Captain America's words in my head," he wrote.
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Though the script tilts to the didactic, the performances are absolutely delicious, with Mr. Meaney droll and understated and Mr. Spall fiery and derisive, yet not above a joke.
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"What is exciting here is not some didactic act of putting my words in Captain America's head, but attempting to put Captain America's words in my head," Coates said.
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Its mode is not angry or didactic but full-throatedly patriotic — a spirit-of-2015, "Immigrants, we get the job done" belief that making America bigger makes it better.
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Children make useful and didactic protagonists precisely because they're so easy to identify with — we assume their innocence; they come with very little baggage other than their future promise.
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The 40-minute result could easily have been a didactic turnoff, but the black-and-white "Seven Up!" was a delightful, tender portrait of 14 lives in first bloom.
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"The program was much more didactic back then," said Frank X. Pegueros, D.A.R.E.'s president and chief executive, when asked whether his group's position on gateway drugs had changed.
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And certainly in the "Witness" exhibition, I think one of the important lessons of that show, and of a lot of my work, is that art is not always didactic.
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Lanark Artefax offers both blippy beatwork and bombed-out synth work that manages to hit the exact swooning midpoint between Aphex Twin's more straightforward productions and post-rock's didactic ambience.
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"I am deeply committed to didactic exchange of information, and I employ mostly open-source and maker-friendly technologies, unless the spirit of the work demands something other," he says.
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CreditCreditFrank Augstein/Associated Press Julian Assange was in classic didactic form, holding forth on the topic that consumes him — the perfidy of big government and especially of the United States.
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Having no desire to be didactic, I use metaphor and ambiguity, and I hope that meaning is conveyed in the finished work, even though it may resist easy logical explanation.
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If so many books for children tend toward the didactic (well, maybe not the ones about beasts consuming tacos), that may be because you're never too young to have problems.
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Guided meditations, even in the form of something like Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening sessions (from which this took cues), are often inherently didactic and a little embarrassing in their performativity.
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William Bibiani, IGN: The didactic quality of McKay's Oscar-winning The Big Short, which frequently broke the fourth wall to explain complicated economic theories (as entertainingly as possible) returns in Vice.
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Without offering an explanation herself, Abney reminds us that narratives can be interpreted in myriad ways and through various lenses — the didactic nature of her work becoming that much more impactful.
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Hardline's efforts to make players not as "emotionally conflicted about gameplay," in light of true events, turn it into a didactic game about the efficacy and virtues of violent police work.
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Apart from my certainty that even the nastiest female cop wouldn't have made that tampon joke, what's irritating about this story line is that it's just as didactic as Greg's lecture.
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Curator Vivian Endicott Barnett has successfully applied a show-don't-tell philosophy to her exhibition, which accomplishes the rare feat of building a rich historical narrative bereft of many didactic texts.
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The title of the "Domestic Breviary" is borrowed from Lutheran and Catholic manuals, with Brecht's didactic energy turned toward exposing a world in which human suffering is man-made and unredeemed.
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You can absolutely gain weight on any diet if you're consuming 23,000 calories a day, according to Dr. Linsenmeyer, who is also director of Saint Louis University's Didactic Program in Dietetics.
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"I was about 7 years old when I heard this story at school, which was presented to us as something didactic, as if Tyll is showing people their folly," Kehlmann says.
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"American Factory" is political without being self-servingly didactic or strident, connecting the sociopolitical dots intelligently, sometimes with the help of a stirring score from Chad Cannon that evokes Aaron Copland.
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"American Factory" is political without being self-servingly didactic or strident, connecting the sociopolitical dots intelligently, sometimes with the help of a stirring score from Chad Cannon that evokes Aaron Copland.
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And yet it is precisely in her absence and with the passage of time that her labyrinthine works are liberated from their didactic origins and are able to spin new meaning.
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Seth Rogen, who cast Ms. Wolf in his "Hilarity for Charity" comedy special on Netflix, said she was a rare stand-up who could tackle timely subjects without sounding tedious or didactic.
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The director Nadav Lapid isn't afraid of obvious situations, bold gestures and didactic metaphors, all of which he deploys in a coming-into-consciousness tale of violence and memory, being and belonging.
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It's this didactic tendency that has helped keep Regan, a man described as both the sugar daddy of the hard right and the godfather of North Idaho politics, from winning elected office.
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They were very much didactic, moral fables, in which viewers were expected to learn a lesson at the end (usually imparted by the narrator, sometimes in more heavy-handed terms than others).
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At Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, as at most other schools, every student gets about 7-8 hours of both didactic and skill-building content in the area of sexual health.
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But the movie is far from didactic, opting instead for a fly-on-the-wall approach that allows viewers to naturally connect with, root for, and find inspiration in its charismatic subjects.
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I'm not sure I'd call the book didactic, but pointing out what I think is in the Bible does help make the case, or further my argument, that prostitution should be decriminalized.
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Because the first season was filming during the election, the showrunner Bruce Miller simply did not have the time or distance to make the show overly didactic or prescriptive about current events.
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Jamian Juliano-Villani, whose work has become highly sought after in recent years, disappoints in the first room with "Native Woman" (2013), a clumsily painted, didactic painting about the salacious male gaze.
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And while "Sami Blood" can sometimes seem didactic, Ms. Kernell, who has Sami heritage, richly conveys a sense of the time and place, with elegant shots that glide through the Nordic wilderness.
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The world of "Cat Person" was meant to be your world, your language, your voice, and in it was a little didactic lesson about relationships that we could all come away with.
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By placing this visual material together, Kameli exposes how the translated stories are edited (particularly the didactic morals) to suit different cultures or political aims, while also bearing the traces of earlier manifestations.
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It was our job as teachers to keep the conversation strictly nongendered, and to sneak consent-based content into the material in a way that did not feel preachy, didactic, or off-topic.
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It's not until the rambling, didactic second half, which finds Ben giving his mother a tour of the underbelly of their Westchester community, that she's made to confront the reality of her son.
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The attributes that make the graphic novel an expressive form also make it a useful didactic tool: a handful of local and state governments have turned to comics to prescribe behaviour to newcomers.
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It is also the clearest and most didactic warning of the downfall that Cole was confident that America would experience if the young country did not heed the lessons of the old world.
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That might be why Stevens committed himself to recording Christmas music once every year for an entire decade, inspecting and occasionally subverting a genre that's typically among the world's most devotional and didactic.
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But while the auto industry is full of engineers in leadership roles, Musk likes to express engineering in a way that's wonky and unique (as well as sort of irritatingly didactic at times).
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It's also one of the most didactic, explaining the altered world in a leisurely way that is perhaps meant to evoke the romantic haze Strahan mentions, though instead it just feels heavy-handed.
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There's a danger in making a play like Affection too didactic, like a public health broadcast, so we just wanted to play with the idea that people don't know the risks they're encountering.
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For all the shame and mortification her alter ego is subjected to, Muslimova never reveals the source (or points a finger), making what could easily be a didactic view into something bizarrely enigmatic.
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In being so harmfully wrong, but, with the help of Udom's precise, almost militaristic physicality and dartlike vocal cadences, so hypnotically fluent, Joe pulls the audience through the looking glass of didactic presentation.
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Embracing the inevitable pandemonium of a project involving 40-plus voices, Kosuth's art-as-idea expands beyond the unyielding didactic confines of his typical fare and into something more encompassing and open-ended.
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To Lee's credit, none of the social commentary in The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue comes off as didactic: There is no eat-your-vegetables dutifulness to this creampuff of a book.
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To be able to express that in a movie, in a non-didactic way, through action, through a narrative that's constructed in a way that you just get swept up, is a beautiful thing.
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But we also have to ask why we aren't telling more stories that don't reflect this value system, that actively challenge capitalist greed, patriarchy, racism, homophobia, and other prejudices without becoming preachy and didactic.
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It's a film that isn't shy to be didactic—a message film, almost explicitly so—but it's careful to walk the line between camp and compassion without going too full-tilt in either direction.
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The Afternoon of a Faun is a highly conscientious novel, elegant in its execution and almost humble in its refusal to grandstand, or to turn a story about rape allegations into some didactic allegory.
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Tay Hohoff, an editor at J. P. Lippincott, decided to take a chance on Lee, but encouraged her to abandon the didactic, abrasive scenes between adults and focus on the manuscript's endearing childhood scenes.
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A final, didactic excursion into the present — featuring two contemporary characters who tell us about Gouges's importance — feels forced, but the rest of "I Dreamed the Revolution" is sharply written and to the point.
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Louisa May Alcott, you have to remember, was writing to put food on the table, so the book can be very didactic — she needed to write what would sell to a 19th century audience.
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What began in 1966 with a little-seen television series that was often didactic and deliberately paced has endured as a cultural institution, even as its fortunes have risen and fallen over the years.
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In the end, these stories are less about didactic scientific explanations or transcendent language and more about how human beings respond to immensely challenging ailments that we don't understand very well if at all.
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Henry Forge's father is horrifically bigoted—plausibly so, given his background, and crucially so, for the plot—but too much of his character is conveyed to us via excessively didactic lectures to his son.
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While normally a press release would help fill in certain blanks of comprehension, the one created for this exhibition is not your standard didactic piece of paper but instead a work in its own right.
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There are indeed a few too many didactic Tubman speeches, and at times Lemmons gets too wrapped up in teaching history, seemingly fearful of confusing viewers with the film's fast-paced unfolding of chronological events.
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It may all sound a little dryly didactic, but it did not come across that way, thanks to the ingenuity and ebullience of Bach's music and to the energy and passion of the Trinity performers.
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There are plenty of lessons to be learned from MXC's rise and fall, yet The Experimental City isn't didactic with these failures (there's no omniscient narrator foretelling doom or drawing lines to present bureaucratic woes).
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What we've witnessed, with the release of "Formation," is a master class in how pop artists can clearly articulate political views that differ from the mainstream without being labeled didactic and marginalized by the media.
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Political fear also relies upon bystanders, whose passivity paves a path for elites and their collaborators, and the targeted community of victims, who transmit didactic tales of fear among themselves, thereby increasing its reverberating effects.
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Over the course of an hour-long phone conversation, I asked Daniel and Schmidt about how Plastic Anniversary came to be and the tricky process of making an album like this without being too didactic.
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Rather than didactic farce, the mode is high-powered melodrama — the samurai warrior here is Susan Hayward, who became one of Hollywood's top female stars by embodying sassy determination in the face of extreme hardship.
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For a game that only takes a couple of hours, they manage to fit in a lot of history without being didactic, from the burning of the Cinema Rex to the culminating Black Friday massacre.
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And though that has been true, in part, the didactic, often body-focused framing of those stories and the gender-war timing of that visibility has also rendered us into symbols, metaphors, pawns and boogeymen.
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General McMaster's didactic style and preference for order made him an uncomfortable fit with a president whose style is looser, and who has little patience for the detail and nuance of complex national security issues.
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A large pipe with a cutaway to an intricate interior of smaller pipes and machinery is a didactic diagram of the artist's function: to slice the surface off reality and expose its strange internal mechanism.
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Though the exhibition's didactic materials include a glossary of terms that draw distinctions between migrant experiences (citizen, emigrant, undocumented), the exhibition's framing by two large-scale installations suggests a global or universal point of view.
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But though its conclusion has a didactic abruptness, Mr. Owen's script otherwise operates on a seductively sensory level, in which we seem to absorb fully the nature of a woman and her world by osmosis.
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Viewers are encouraged to experience Monkman's source material firsthand, aided by didactic wall labels that indicate the cited works' locations in the museum galleries, but Griffey emphasized that the two paintings stand on their own.
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There are rigorous prescreening standards for the pool of officer hopefuls, and even after four out of a pool of a thousand applicants are accepted as trainees, the individual psychological, physical, and didactic training is intense.
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Presented by Theater for the New City in association with New Yiddish Rep, the play is an earnest yet didactic attempt to confront the intractable hostility between Israelis and Palestinians and nudge hearts closer to peace.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CHICAGO — Several didactic signs line the walls of Stella Brown's "Rezkoville Visitor's Center" (2017), a wooden tri-walled structure situated in the back left corner of Goldfinch's exhibition Marginal Green.
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Swan, who addresses the subject with explicit and didactic language both in her YouTube videos and in live events at her Philia Center in Costa Rica, has been criticized for her teachings and beliefs on suicide.
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Initially his book risks becoming a didactic screed about the dangers of modern technology, as the author laments the way cars, trains, buses and gawking at a smartphone speed life up, leaving little to be savoured.
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Perhaps the next time there is a humanitarian crisis that Facebook needs to monitor on its platform, the AI model that helps do so will be informed by the auto-didactic efficiencies that turn up here.
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Although "Otherworlds" is resolutely an art exhibition, didactic elements come through Mr Benson's collaboration with Joe Michalski, a planetary geologist at the museum who helped to pen the understated yet informative blurbs that accompany each image.
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I was especially interested in the research project carried out by UMSN students last year on how trauma care is taught in clinical and didactic settings because I recognize how beneficial trauma-based care would be.
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Before those final moments, the movie has already been a didactic sermon from the never-subtle Lee, pointing with red, neon arrows at all of the ways America's racist past informed and predicted America's racist present.
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While Brecht felt theater should always be didactic, he took his professorial duties very much to heart in "Arturo Ui," and theatergoers without a solid knowledge in Hitler-era German history may often feel at sea.
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This presentation is also an important bookend to the 238 Biennial, a raucous, untidy show unforgettable for the real-life issues it threw in viewers' faces — and for often overly didactic, hectoring and visually dry art.
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With his judicious, thoughtful and balanced answers to difficult and often inflammatory questions, Hayes, a professor emeritus at Northwestern, has provided an intellectually searching and wide-ranging study of the Holocaust in a modest, didactic form.
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Other encounters — with a no-nonsense sports mom (Jeryl Prescott), the owner of Erick's team (Kyle MacLachlan) and Ray's old friend Spence (Bill Duke), who runs a youth basketball program — follow the same didactic, disputatious pattern.
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But we really didn't want to create something didactic, because ultimately, we wanted to avoid what has happened at the British Museum, where curators and anthropologists have assigned meaning to objects that they don't fully understand.
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They come to life via some sharp character work and a lot of stage-setting, and they often include a satisfying amount of ambiguity in their resolution to keep the story more complicated and convincing than didactic.
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An exhibition label explains that Mr. Pendleton was inspired by Hannah Weiner's series of works from 21998 called "Code Poems," which are represented here in the form of hard-to-decipher didactic plaques made for the show.
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He wasn't so much a comic book artist as the last great stained-glass painter of the European tradition, his didactic little fables bringing theology and liturgy into the domain of fungible images, to educate the unchurched.
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The leisurely crossword, hijacked here for more political, didactic purposes, is complemented by a series of sculptures focusing on the cult of wellness that has been booming in recent years, even in institutions like the American military.
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The director Jessica Glause, who created the libretto based on interviews with refugees in the cast, has concocted a blend of humor, horror and youthful energy that hardly feels like a didactic documentary about Europe's refugee crisis.
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A little more than half a century after Richardson, she brought to the realist novel a discipline and a concision and an irony that enabled her to transform her own didactic impulses into the basis of art.
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Designed, in part, as a place where the extended Mercer family can gather, the yacht has many fanciful and didactic touches for the Mercer grandchildren, such as frescoes that allude to the discoveries of Darwin and Newton.
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Profits would help fund education and other initiatives, including a didactic lobby that visitors must pass through showcasing in real time the science of climate change, such as the acidification of oceans and destruction of coral reefs.
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If I didn't feel like Joey had a sense of humor about it, then I think I would have been maybe more trepidatious to be as hand-holdy or even as didactic as we were with him.
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So, although my digital reconstructions had been used in many different ways, my intention is that they should serve as an educational and didactic tool on how a monument or an ancient urban landscape might have looked like.
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Piper's work, in spite of the simplicity assumed by critic Ken Johnson in a 2000 New York Times review (he called it "abrasive, didactic, and aesthetically blunt"), doesn't actually offer a solution to this issue of multiple visions.
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Mr Sorkin has a weakness for didactic speeches and seems to have developed a habit of repeating variations of those he is particularly proud of (this reviewer noticed two that had echoes of scenes in "The West Wing").
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The pieces recall didactic temple paintings, which, although they're less common in Vietnam than the rest of Southeast Asia, are often used to illustrate an important historical event or story, like the Jatakas telling the lives of Buddha.
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Ruskin's reputation sank like a lead Zeppelin after the first world war, under the combined assault of Bloomsbury intellectuals, who mocked his over-wrought prose and didactic style, and modernist architects, who ridiculed his taste for the Gothic.
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Unlike most of the stuff thrown at us online (the narcissistic makeup tutorials, the angry news clips, the high-gloss cooking porn, the didactic home-repair instructionals), "Primitive Technology" doesn't chatter at you or otherwise demand your attention.
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William Electric Black's "The Faculty Room," set in a high school and running through April 30 at Theater for the New City, is indeed didactic, instructing the audience about the nexus of the Second Amendment and urban ills.
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A few months ago, I was a visiting professor at the hospital in Boston where I first met S. I skipped the usual tradition of delivering a long, didactic lecture and joined the interns on their medical rounds.
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Weirdly, I sort of had to forget about the politics of it and concentrate on the aesthetic experience and how best to convey the message of the film visually rather than in a didactic way or as propaganda.
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But the underlying goal of religion is to take a stab at pondering or even providing answers to some of the deepest questions about the universe, and the best pop culture — the best art, period — is rarely so didactic.
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Liza Essers and Hank Willis Thomas, the curators, have been wise in shunning a didactic approach, arranging the show instead around the biographies of the artists, each of whom has a "very deep personal connection to Africa and America".
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This buoyantly didactic performance piece, directed by Will Davis, features Mr. Jones (as himself) and his Amazonian alter ego, the soul diva Jomama Jones, who appears as a pageant-loving, inspirational grade-school teacher in the show's second half.
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Clearly, the intervening years of writing often didactic nonfiction — on subjects like nuclear tests, political corruption and Hindu extremism — have not damaged her gift for poetic description or her ability to map the complicated arithmetic of love and belonging.
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Her trick is a magnificent one: Patience's irresistible narration, never didactic, moves at an impressive clip as the reader roots all the while for the criminal — a woman in a man's world, battling race, age and gender while cheerfully ignoring ethics.
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The soft hues and meditative music of the game, as well as the isolation of your character in her mortuary lab (the sole contact with friends is through email), hints at the heaviness of this work without it being didactic.
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But the didactic contributions by these experts quickly grew irritating — as did Mr. Findlay's decision to have these images flit from one screen to the next so that the talking heads seemed to rear up from the heath like rabbits.
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At the end of it, the artist appears to explain the performance, in a very didactic way, as a symbolic action addressing the importance of the television screen, giving a great lesson about clarity to any TV art critics to come.
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A microphone and a bathtub set the stage for two women in matching white bodysuits, each representing a side of a woman's personality and speaking to the modern experience without being didactic but certainly equal parts eye-opening and emotional.
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We often state our position on metaphors as exploring irrational ideas that destabilize communities, but just as importantly, we are creating an Indigenous ceremonial ground for public discourse, as opposed to codifying a didactic discourse that names "truth" in the world.
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So do various moments involving Miriam's cerebral palsy: not the wordless opening scene, where she slowly hauls her small frame up some stairs, but the times when Ed and Hannah clumsily betray their ignorance — exchanges that come across as blatantly didactic.
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Her account of his drive to conquer his polio so that he could traverse the Madison Square Garden stage at the 1924 Democratic convention exemplifies her talent at bringing personality to life not through didactic exposition but through well-wrought narrative.
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But it's undermined by a story that feels like it's checking off boxes — an interracial-romance subplot, a police chokehold case, a White Lives Matter protest — as well as stilted, didactic dialogue and a stiff central performance by Mr. Noszka.
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While I did find this story to be a bit more didactic and direct with its conclusions than some of the previous short stories we have reviewed here, I do want to point out one beautiful symbol that he chose.
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If Invisible Man's cerebral ambition — the abstraction of objects in space — runs all the risks of highly conceptual work, particularly that of being inaccessible or illegible without didactic narrative, it also rewards the effort put into reading and experiencing it.
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He takes on big issues but there is nothing didactic about his plays, with the result that, when revived, as they frequently are, they can speak to a new generation of theatregoers with the same power as when they were first staged.
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Often they were didactic Randian tracts about the importance of private property and the absolute division between good and evil (as in his vigilante series Mr. A). But Ditko also continued to do commercial work for bigger companies, which he didn't own.
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Raw and tragic without being didactic or self-indulgent, this coming-of-age story is the kind of thing to put on when you and someone else want to get to know each other on fast-forward through the magic of shared experience.
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Didactic and anarchic, tragic and comic, it's a klezmer musical and a love story, a particular family history (Chaim and Chaya are based on the Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch's own great-grandparents) and a broad allegory for the refugee crisis of the present.
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Some aspects of the show are relics of a 1990s comedy culture that was interested in pushing back against "political correctness," but the show was never as didactic as, say, South Park (which has faced its own reckoning with its legacy of late).
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Richardson's wit and ability to conceive characters who feel "natural"—as he rather immodestly put it in the book's original introduction—enable the novel to outpace his own didactic intentions, to become something far more lifelike and original than a morality tale.
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This sprawling exhibition is organized according to four themes: "Confronting Contagion"; "States of Mind"; "Worlds of Care"; and "Birthing Narratives," but I found myself more drawn by how the artists incorporated their personal narratives of illness than by the exhibition's overall didactic structure.
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Twenty-five years ago one could have expected to enter a museum to have an explicitly educational experience, that is, the success of the visit would have been defined largely by how effectively information was transferred to the visitor, largely through didactic texts.
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For me, what this enables me to do is something that is very hard for other medical museum curators to do, which is to talk about a mental condition while having a very didactic physical representation of it that the person can see.
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The exhibition also hosts more than a few didactic social practicisms, best exemplified by Rosten Woo's extensive bulletin board that questions who "we" are and what "our own" is by asking audience members to place pushpins in the categories they most identify with.
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Conrad has big ideas on his mind, about how capitalism squeezes people dry and how modern American Christianity aids and abets it, but he's so good at crafting sharp plot turns and dreamy images that Perpetual Grace LTD never feels didactic or preachy.
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It's never been a personal favorite of mine: It's an oddly dark and didactic book, in which the characters who are endowed with that sparkling Austen charm all turn out to be wicked or amoral and the morally upright characters are pinched and humorless.
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Since at least the Cold War, the stain of ideology has adversely affected its perception in the West, where nonspecialist reviewers and readers have often characterized 20th-century Chinese writing as preoccupied with didactic political messages, to the exclusion of stylistic or psychological complexity.
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Delivering on both fronts simultaneously has proven to be the white stag of the space: either an educational toy is didactic enough for the parent but too boring for the child, or fun enough for the child but not educational enough for the parent.
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The sheer idea of a concert ensemble playing madly and completely silently in front of a rapturous crowd is so surreal, so reminiscent of an acid trip that is also a didactic children's fable, that Sounds Like Titanic got its hooks into me immediately.
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They are both exhibitions where I'm staggered by the power of the artist's work, but find that the didactic text attempts to limit my responses to obvious and restricted readings of McMillian's work — full of signifiers that reference domesticity, race, and class, and more.
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In the books, when Ellaria Sand is handed the skull of The Mountain as a consolation for Oberyn's death, she uses it as a didactic device for the Sand Snakes — this is what revenge gets you, a useless skull that doesn't make anyone feel better.
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The criticisms that this sort of writing is open to—that it is overly emotional in its appeal, and too didactic—resemble many of the objections raised, by conservatives and liberals alike, to the tone of much post-Katrina activism, in Ferguson and beyond.
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"Art shouldn't fall into any kind of simplistic, didactic haranguing, and topicality is a dangerous thing, because you always get outstripped by reality," said Tony Taccone, the longtime artistic director of Berkeley Rep, and a co-author, with Bennett S. Cohen, of the new adaptation.
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But it continues the approach that made season one so dangerous: This show insists on exploring very serious real-life problems in as much didactic detail as possible, but it does not show any evidence of having done the research to get the exploration right.
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Seen with contemporary eyes, the fact that the backbone of the Minimalist ethos is remembered through three manifestoes written by men — Donald Judd's "Specific Objects" (21981), Robert Morris's "Notes on Sculpture" (21967) and Sol LeWitt's "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art"(22004) — feels didactic and historically inaccurate.
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In moments of sublime social disorientation — we are living in one such moment now — Nauman appears as one of the few artists who tells it exactly as it is, without ever being didactic or eschewing the personal motivations that are the ultimate source of art.
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The epistolary form, it becomes evident, plays to Richardson's strengths and minimizes his weaknesses: writing from the perspectives of his best-realized and most complex characters, and especially writing "to the moment," filters his didactic intentions, preventing him from sermonizing in his own voice.
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Mr. Macron's tone on Monday was true to form — he has been accused of being didactic — and it was uncertain if his words would be enough to calm a country that is seeing some of the greatest expressions of popular anger in 50 years.
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Later in his career Mr. Burningham was sometimes more directly didactic, addressing themes like pollution and war, as he did in "Whaddayamean" (1999), in which God visits Earth, is displeased and sets two children to the task of getting grown-ups to change their ways.
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Located on the large mezzanine of an Oakland waterfront office building, the "museum" tells the history of capitalism primarily through the work of visual artists who appropriate forms found in a typical history museum, including educational videos, dioramas, didactic displays, and vitrines with artifacts.
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AAM's count of four is dire: Bustillo's educational table, the beautiful piña garment in the Cowles Gallery, a pair of improperly labeled Ifugao "rice deities" in a room focused on festivals and celebrations, and a quote from local Filipinx artist Moonyeka used as a didactic text.
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Comme Un Seul Narcisse ("Like a Single Narcissus," in English) comes stripped of context, retaining the phrase's beauty but not its didactic power, which is sort of the approach that the pair take over the course of the 10 beautifully diffuse pieces that make up the record.
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And I thought the movie presented [traditional ideas about masculinity] in a really sly way, because the movie was not didactic or judging it; it was just kind of presenting it in the clothes of a satire, and therefore you're watching it and laughing at it.
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Despite its grab bag of serious subject matter, like the best of Lear's work, the new One Day at a Time never feels preachy or didactic — it's always funny, first and foremost, thanks to deft writing and skilled performers like Machado and Rita Moreno (who plays her mother).
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Almost as soon as the Valeant Pharmaceuticals crash buried several celebrated fund managers, the gleeful mockery of their hubris came wrapped in a scolding lesson about their supposed errors: "This is what happens when a fund is too concentrated in a few names," the didactic investment experts tut-tutted.
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And if you want to understand Fox, and you want to understand the rise of conservatism today, Roger's life story is a good way to look at that — an engrossing, non-didactic way of exploring a lot of big ideas, because he's really fascinating as a human portrait.
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More than once it felt like we were in an academic setting rather than a public performance venue, with the work feeling at times far too didactic and at others overly simplistic, as if it had been generated by students whose art doesn't yet have much depth or teeth.
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Presented in a largely didactic manner, Kite, who is Oglala Lakota, taught the audience various phrases in the Lakota language, including "Manifest Destiny" — the poisonous phrase introduced in the 1840s and used to justify the raping and pillaging of Native Americans and their lands by theist white American settlers.
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In fact, that location, enlivened by some striking directorial touches — including rubber masks that looked like cement moldings of the actors' faces and a floor littered with glowing hard hats — remained the most interesting thing about the play, which, despite some fine acting, is verbose, static and didactic.
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Less didactic than Neill Blomkamp's 2009 sci-fi apartheid allegory District 9 (which she cites as an influence) but even more culturally urgent than a period piece like Pan's Labyrinth, Tigers Are Not Afraid isn't an easy watch, despite the sense of earned catharsis it offers by the end.
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At times, William was didactic to the point where it felt as if he were talking at me, rather than with me, but I'd never known a man who went so far out of his way to fill my needs long before I knew that I had them.
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I find it can be oppressive and elitist to have so much didactic material and written explanation in order to interact with an artwork and I wonder what message that will convey looking far into the future; what if those explanations are lost and only the work survives?
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Many viewed Macklemore's gesture through a lens of suspicion; the same rapper netted buckets of cash and coveted award season acclaim in 2013 for The Heist's anti-bling trifle "Thrift Shop" and "Same Love," a song questioning hip-hop's lingering homophobia problem that was roundly criticized for being didactic and pandering.
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I am borrowing the term "machine" from the painter Christian Bonnefoi, who calls it: […] a type of object that is halfway between rough sketch and the work itself […] it reveals the hidden surfaces, the facets are exposed under different lights: didactic, experimental, theoretical, practical or — and this last is significant — playful.
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Pop culture aimed at teens is simultaneously didactic and escapist: We want to pass good moral lessons to our youth, but we also often equate teen with trashy, and use the media we ostensibly create for teens as a way for adults to escape the pressures of post-teen life.
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Shaw is represented with a large gallery of his own work and another gallery featuring The Hidden World (1960s-ongoing), the artist's collection of didactic art and ephemera related to mostly non-secular belief systems, from such sources as secret societies, new-age spiritualists, fundamentalist and evangelical movements, and conspiracy theorists.
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Though she is by definition a didactic artist — her most celebrated work, "Funk Lessons," a performance she began in 1983, involves her literally teaching, as though it were a social science, an auditorium full of mostly white people how to dance to funk music — Piper is far from a nag or a nerd.
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As the critic Marianne Thormählen noted in 2018, Tenant is in the odd position of never having been quite right for its time: too shocking in its uncensored treatment of domestic abuse and addiction for the 19th century, and too didactic and moralizing in its condemnation of both for the 20th century.
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Others take on a more didactic tone, such as the Dear Travellers zine created in English to explain to those stuck at the airport what the protests are about, including details of the Anti-Extradition Bill and the more recent demands being made of authorities; these were distributed from August 9-13.
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Graduation is the latest example of Mungiu's brilliantly intricate methodology: a work that can be viewed as a treatise on the nature of graft and corruption in human politics, but through the prism of a much smaller and more nuanced story, whose rich characters are anything but didactic (all apologies, Richard Brody).
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"Decorative painting," on the contrary, suggested mural painting, large-scale pictorial schemes that might have been subordinated to the architectural spaces for which they were created, but given that these were either public spaces, or private ones of some importance, they were expected to convey elevated, even didactic themes — they were works of ideological significance.
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These diametric motifs are hangings in Damon Lindelof land, a universe filled in with the lush, pontificating moral core of Lost, and the surreal, didactic journey of The Leftovers, which, in this penultimate episode, hones in on a thesis that binds the shows into one thorny beating heart: that to love someone is to suffer.
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Ms. Spiotta writes about film with great knowledge and insight, but her detailed descriptions of Meadow's craft — and her thinking about her craft — often read like didactic illustrations of the book's central theme: its fascination with the ways art and technology (film, television, the telephone and the Internet) distort, diminish or amplify our emotions.
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Their works are included here, of course — with Rivera coming across as rather tame and didactic compared to his more visceral contemporaries — but what makes this show so fascinating is how it chronicles the many different ways that Mexican artists grappled with the perceived need to fashion some kind of identifiable national style or movement.
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That Bryant's lessons are expressed through what outwardly appears to be a deeply dark-sided children's programming—imagine a roiling and haunted basketball-obsessed version of Sesame Street, focused exclusively on a bloody binary vision of competition—with much puppet-human interaction and some didactic songs, is something Kobe has described as a question of necessity.
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Without being didactic about it, The Fits speaks to issues of race and working-class realities, invisibly tying Toni's journey to larger struggles that extend far beyond childhood—the struggle to be accepted, to discover your authentic self, to find your tribe, to stay a step ahead of the unpredictable disasters that can upend your life.
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After all, while those games are able to linger in their chosen tonality, Far Cry 5 spins wildly between didactic, yet contradictory sermons and a relentless, mediocre style of comedy that never rises above an echo of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' 14 year old sketch of rural American culture, down to the UFO expert and amoral CIA agent.
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Second-wave feminist icon Gloria Steinem signaled this political sea change in her 1992 self-esteem tract Revolution from Within, and Oprah Winfrey expertly transmuted feminist political grievance into soft-focus nostrums of self-acceptance, using her own life story as a didactic case study in the miracles wrought by a gospel of female self-help.
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But "Poor Cow" (on Saturday), featuring Mr. Stamp as a good-hearted thief who briefly offers the prospect of happiness for the wife (Carol White) of an imprisoned colleague, is worth seeing on its own; it may come as a surprise to viewers who know only Mr. Loach's more didactic recent portraits of Britain's working class.
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Beyond international stars, Pierini has a predilection for his Brazilian roots, frequently portraying legends like Bossa Nova singer Elis Regina (made of vinyl discs and audio speakers), pedagogical philosopher Paulo Freire (manifested in an arrangement of didactic school books), as well as Renato Russo, the late singer of punk rock band Legião Urbana (unsurprisingly forged from musical instruments, as well).
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Far from clinical or scholarly, however, Zombi Child is teeming with vivid hangout scenes and brilliant slices of life, such as when Mélissa recites a René Depestre poem as her tryout for the sorority and then, as the other girls deliberate next-door, dances in solitude to Kalesh's "Mwaka Moon;" it is these moments that make the revelations visceral rather than didactic.
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Literature can represent that divide more flexibly than something like the didactic essay or a news article could It seems like a really, really, really horrible thing to say, but I feel like if you are centering the idea of not just consent but enthusiastic consent in your work, you're having to world-build that, because it doesn't exist in our society.
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Director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) adapted R.J. Palacio's source novel into a screenplay with Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne, and it neatly avoids becoming a didactic after-school special about why it's important for people to be kind by letting the story work as a character piece, full of humor and warmth and conflict and fun.
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Though there's a photo montage showing race-crime headlines of the 1920s in the second act, Mr. Evans (the anointed artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theater) doesn't let the didactic side overwhelm the compellingly pulpy storytelling (based on Edna Ferber's decades-spanning novel), some of the liveliest choreography in London (by Alistair David) and the gorgeous singing of Kern's peerless ballads.
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In the 1990s, the geopolitical stage seemed set for a performance not unlike George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," an optimistic and didactic play in which a professor of phonetics ("the West"), over a short period of time, succeeds in teaching a poor flower girl ("the Rest") to speak like the Queen and feel at home in polite company ("to become a liberal democracy").
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For an art exhibition, "the curatorial challenge was how to bring all of the information in the books to life, to make it emotional and aesthetic, not didactic," said Dexter Wimberly, the executive director of Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, who organized the show with MAD's Samantha De Tillio (MAD's chief curator, Shannon Stratton, brought the show to the institution).
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Typically, in telling the story of an artist, or an art historical movement, an art institution attempts to establish familial, cultural, or intellectual genealogy (often through didactic wall texts and captions), displays objects created by the artist or artists concerned, and frequently attaches all this information to a chronological layout showing a developing sophistication of facture, or an elaboration of key ideas and principles.
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In the final lines of the Georgics, a long didactic poem about farming which he finished when he was around forty, the poet looked back yearningly to the untroubled leisure he had enjoyed during that period: And I, the poet Virgil, nurtured by sweet Parthénopé [Naples], was flourishing in the pleasures Of idle studies, I, who bold in youth Played games with shepherds' songs.
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Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School at the Petersen Automotive Museum explores the influence of this groundbreaking magazine, showcasing underground favorites like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Von Dutch, alongside artists that bridge the gap between lowbrow and high art, like Kenny Scharf, Anthony Ausgang, and Sandow Birk, proving that the barriers between the street and the white cube are more porous than they may at first seem.
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This interleaved narrative takes the form of an interview between a young, cynical literary prizewinner and a wide-eyed female journalist, who plays Remo to the writer's Jan, allowing him to unspool the Borgesian plot of his book — which concerns the caretaker of a Potato Academy in southern Chile who makes endless didactic radio broadcasts on potato cultivation, not knowing if anyone hears them.
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Anybody who's listened to the radio during the past year and inadvertently (or otherwise) developed a taste for the bland, luscious, sensitive EDM permutation known as tropical house will instantly delight upon hearing this album, as will anybody who loved the sexy upbeat songs on Justin Bieber's Purpose but yawned and/or groaned when he strummed an acoustic confessional or spouted a didactic ballad.
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As his work has evolved, and as he has a keener retrospective sense of his own accomplishment, he has become aware, he says, that much of what he's struggled for is rooted not in the duly intoned roster of high modernism, Kafka and Beckett and Joyce, but in a certain vein of American realism, even regionalism—in a didactic democratic propaganda that was at large in the nineteen-forties.
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Newport, R.I., was a popular spot for scissor-wielding women in woolen petticoats and stout boots, and in 1845 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poetic celebration of seaweed, comparing it to fragments of song cast up by storms of emotion: An 1875 issue of the American children's magazine St. Nicholas featured a didactic story called "The Sea-Weed Album," which instructed readers in the gentle art of algology.
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People want to be told stories, and we're now at an age ... Maybe I'm coming around to agreeing with you, where we are beginning to understand that documentaries, and maybe it's that the documentarians have begun to understand that these are not necessarily didactic lessons in telling you what you should know, but things that are informed by the same kind of dramatic impulses and laws that govern a feature film.
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