didactic

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We didn’t want to write a didactic book.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

“Once you get didactic, that’s it. You’ve lost them.”

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

"I guess what the show is saying, and we're never didactic about this stuff, is that Pierpoint and the wider capitalist enterprise turbocharge some of their worst instincts," says Kay.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024

Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez