undidactic

Ms. Raine's research shows in the undidactic way she makes the audience understand the arguments: Is "signing" a language itself, not simply an inadequate version of English, though it is unable to express conditionals (such as "if" and "would")?

Raine's Tribal Instinct Breaks Down the Language Barriers Paul Levy 2010

California Dreamin' is more than just a story of cultural miscommunication, though it is certainly that, and its last half hour is one of the most complex and undidactic representations of such miscommunication that I've encountered in a film.

Archive 2010-06-01 2010

California Dreamin' is more than just a story of cultural miscommunication, though it is certainly that, and its last half hour is one of the most complex and undidactic representations of such miscommunication that I've encountered in a film.

California Dreamin' 2010

He wanted his informal history of the Great Books movement in America, "A Great Idea at the Time," to be "brief, engaging, and undidactic ... as different from the ponderous and forbidding Great Books as it could possibly be" -- and so it is.

Learning for Everyone 2008

Great literature of the past two centuries has sentimentalized politics, crime, nature, and madness, but seldom the family, and the wrenching incompatibility of a woman's professional or artistic expression with her familial commitments has made its way into the most undidactic of literary minds.

Leave Them and Love Them 2004

Great literature of the past two centuries has sentimentalized politics, crime, nature, and madness, but seldom the family, and the wrenching incompatibility of a woman's professional or artistic expression with her familial commitments has made its way into the most undidactic of literary minds.

Leave Them and Love Them 2004

So you see this popular art of light and shade, catching you by your mere thirst of sensation, is not only undidactic, but the reverse of didactic -- deceptive and illusory.

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

Much has been written by critics, especially by those in Germany (the native land of criticism), upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction -- whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the undidactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination.

Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Much has been written by critics, especially by those in Germany (the native land of criticism), upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction -- whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the undidactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination.

Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Kawecki's script is unshaped, but in Marcantel's nuanced, undidactic handling of her story, the girlfriend's eagerness to use the statutory rape as an all-purpose explanation for her boyfriend's behavior demonstrates the limitations of letting one chapter in a life stand for the whole story.

Chicago Reader 2010