didactic

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There is the tone didactic, the tone enthusiastic, the tone natural -- all common -- place enough.

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  1. adjective Intended to instruct.
  2. adjective Morally instructive.
  3. adjective Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.

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  • The General's compositions would be perfectly plain and didactic, and not always correct During the Presidency, scarcely anything of a public nature was penned by Washington,—Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Randolph acting as his draughtsmen. —  The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
  • Director James Vasquez steers clear of the didactic, and the question as to whether Josh may or may not grow up to be gay becomes irrelevant as his mother accepts him for who he is.
  • Thanks to nuanced acting and a true story that resists formulizing, it's surprisingly un-didactic, as it traces an ordinary man's treatment at the hands of the police - from harassment, to persecution, to torture. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Allan Hunter for Screen Daily: "Amusing and informative but also hectoring and didactic, the wide-ranging film is not as tasty as one might have hoped and consequently will struggle to win hearts and minds." —  GreenCine Daily
  • [T] he experience of watching the film is not didactic, and it never feels laden with heavy-duty social commentary .... —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. Greek didaktikos, skillful in teaching, from didaktos, taught, from didaskein, didak-, to teach, educate.

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  1. = French didactique = Spanish didáctico = Portuguese didactico (cf. D. didactisch, adjective, didactiek, n., = German didactisch, adjective, didactik, n., = Danish Swedish didaktisk, adjective), from Greek διδακτικός, apt at teaching, from διδακτός, verbal adjective of διδάσκειν, teach (for *δι-δακ-σκειν?), = Latin docere, teach (see docile), cf. disc-ere, learn (see disciple); cf. Greek aorist infinitive δαῆναι, learn, redupl. 2d aorist δέδαε, he taught, perfect δεδάηκα, also δέδαα, I know; cf. Zend √ , know.
 

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