didactic
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We didn’t want to write a didactic book.
From Los Angeles Times
One didactic chapter in “Queen Esther” is called “The History of Abortion in America.”
The program made the point about the racist subject without being excessively didactic; the one projection was a period drawing of a costumed lady in blackface.
Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.
Here’s where “Ginny & Georgia” might have launched into a didactic, pro-abortion-rights lecture cloaked in a TV drama, or played it safe by pulling back and highlighting both women’s stories in equal measure.
From Los Angeles Times
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