as in moralizing
marked by or given to preaching moral values
the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion
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Recent Examples of didactic
More emotional scenes, however, feel hammy and didactic, heavy on the telling over the showing (and that telling hinges on being damn blunt about the whole thing, to boot).
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Feb. 2025
Its storytelling is straightforward, familiar, and even didactic, culminating in a dime-store Freudian sequence which flashes back to a moment from John’s childhood in which his father wins a painting contest at a local fair.
—Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
There are several plot holes, extra scenes clearly included just to boost Sheridan's ego, and the dialogue has become overly preachy and didactic—almost as annoying as Aaron Sorkin's mini-sermons in later seasons of The West Wing, which is saying something.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Yet overall, the tone of the curation is hectoring and didactic, informed by humourless identity politics.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Feb. 2025
Its storytelling is straightforward, familiar, and even didactic, culminating in a dime-store Freudian sequence which flashes back to a moment from John’s childhood in which his father wins a painting contest at a local fair.
—Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
There are several plot holes, extra scenes clearly included just to boost Sheridan's ego, and the dialogue has become overly preachy and didactic—almost as annoying as Aaron Sorkin's mini-sermons in later seasons of The West Wing, which is saying something.
—Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
Yet overall, the tone of the curation is hectoring and didactic, informed by humourless identity politics.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for didactic
Adjective
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The story is predictably moralistic and, frankly, more worried about conforming to contemporary mores than accurately representing what was going on in Cuba in the 1950s, dramatically speaking anyway.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The United States has flipped from a moralistic benefactor to a transactional predator of Kyiv’s resources.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Reputational Crises Reputational crises can also be instructive.—
Roman Reznikov,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Here too, the historical parallel with animal cognition is instructive.—
David Chauvet,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There are several plot holes, extra scenes clearly included just to boost Sheridan's ego, and the dialogue has become overly preachy and didactic—almost as annoying as Aaron Sorkin's mini-sermons in later seasons of The West Wing, which is saying something.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
24 Dec. 2024
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Much more than a preachy cartoon seminar about recycling, Captain Planet strove to make kids understand their responsibility to the earth and its preservation.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2024
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The preacher’s experience, insights and emotions all come into play when composing the homiletic text.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
6 July 2023
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There’s a word for this style of narrative preaching—homiletic.—
Jo Livingstone,
The New Republic,
6 Apr. 2021
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“Didactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didactic. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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