Sentences with phrase «didactic about»

Being interested in great themes isn't pretentious, pretension is being up - front and heavy handed and didactic about those themes.

For someone who specializes in improvising, there is something didactic about his acting, a sense that he is thinking about the moment and not inhabiting it.

The film suffers from the curious problem of feeling didactic about nothing in particular.

Not exact matches

This joint proclamation of certain truths about the nature of the human person and human community as created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.

He explains how, since about 2012 — when he shifted his art from a preachier, almost didactic posture to a more reflective, emotionally place — he's had to constantly defended himself.

During the same period, didactics became established as a technical field yielding scientifically grounded knowledge about teaching methods.

Bahrani's earnest, didactic style is occasionally strident, his points about the foreclosure crisis a little loud at times.

But when I spoke with him, Clooney did hit upon something that's true about every wildly topical era in Hollywood: Movies succeed not when they're didactic, but when they manage to reflect or capture a larger national mood.

It's a genre piece, and it's uneven (for once the juvenile actors in a movie aren't as good as the grownups) but it's not didactic or overly preachy and it makes some trenchant points about despair.

Monologues that could be didactic are laced with what feels like genuine yearning; a moment in which Doug tells new girlfriend Claire (Rebecca Hall) about his childhood could have (should have) been embarrassing, but comes off under Affleck's surprising wisdom as heartfelt, even resonant.

It's uncomplicated but beautifully executed — so pure and genuinely - felt that its conclusions about the unavoidable zero - sum game of tribalism land as not didactic but poetic.

An Education is brutally candid about class in ways that never feel didactic or heavy - handed.

So it was about, to bring all of this in one film, in one document, that of course shouldn't be didactic but should also be a film — an entertaining film.

A lot of ways were experimented but the transdisciplinary teaching and learning still are obstructed by the disciplinary structured system of education and the poor knowledge of the teachers about the transdisciplinary methods (didactics).

The project aimed to offer an example of good didactic practice for achieving a holistic integrative view on the knowledge about water.

«Learning about how to handle student behavior requires much more than just didactic training where a professor or staff developer gets up in front of the room and talks about it.

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

Through hands - on, didactic materials they build on the foundation of numerals to learn about the decimal system, numbers to 100, and the four operations.

It begs the question: Is this really about school reform, or is it about somebody's philosophical or ideological stance, that they're just so, you know, didactic... that they're going to push this program without any flexibility whatsoever, without any pragmatism, without any common sense?

Never didactic and often hilarious, this debut novel about a Muslim teen in Australia shows the diversity of her immigrant community as well as the discrimination and family struggles she experiences.

Along the way, the reader learns a lot about the fascinating Amish culture, but not in a didactic fashion.

Karr manages to write about spirituality without ever coming across as didactic or preachy — no small feat.

Rather than being a didactic game teaching us about psychosis, Hellblade allows us to explore it through the creation of a compelling and complex character, and the world that she inhabits.»

I left at 5 because I wanted to get home to write about the exhibition of Josef Albers Paintings on Paper, an exhibition at the Morgan Library closing this weekend — in that decision were multiple ironies, that I was leaving a fashionable art event inimical to painting in order to write about an artist who in fact I had always seen as didactic in a way that could be seen as part of the repressive politics of high modernism which contributed to my move towards feminism as a young artist.

It's been my experience that hearing a good abstract painter talk about their work is far more rewarding than didactic lectures about more objective practices.

What is refreshing about Nathanson's approach is her ability to address the narrative, seeking its essential truths without becoming illustrative or didactic.

In relation, 1708 Gallery strives to educate the public about Contemporary art and employs artist talks and didactic text panels to illustrate the exhibiting artist's issues, themes, and modes of working.

If «Tainted Love» is an unusually wordy show — even Charles Lum's videos are a lot about talking — it doesn't feel in the least bit dry or didactic.

I also referred to looking at paintings, read the text that appeared in the painting, and asked about reading didactics or taking photos in the museum.

S: To be clear, we're talking about didactic panels.

Moffett has an ability to make political art that's not overbearing and art about art without being didactic.

It's another one of those didactic anthology shows purporting to bring some issue that artists think regular folk have either thought about incorrectly, or have repressed entirely, out into the open and, in the patois of today's art world, «address,» «confront,» «deconstruct,» «unpack,» and «interrogate» the hell out of it.

Biber calls it a «didactic wall» that will help tell a story about the future of American agriculture.

Didactic Chad About - I teach Psychology, Sociology, Communication Applications and Debate at College Station High School, as well as coach the debate team and co-sponsor Student Council.

Results showed significant improvements in substance use (both alcohol and drug), trauma - related symptoms, suicide risk, suicidal thoughts, social adjustment, family functioning, problem solving, depression, cognitions about substance use, and didactic knowledge related to the treatment.

Our 12 - week program is adapted from MBSR, a structured 8 - week program of instruction in the cultivation of mindfulness, a practice of purposeful nonjudgmental attention to the happenings of the present moment.5 MBSR programs consist of 3 components: (1) didactic material related to mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the mind - body connection; (2) experiential practice of various mindfulness meditations, mindful yoga, and body awareness during group meetings and encouragement of home practice; and (3) group discussion focused on the application of mindfulness to everyday situations and problem - solving related to barriers to effective practice.5, 13,14 The MBSR program includes a number of formal and informal techniques, all of which share the goal of enhancing nonjudgmental present - focused awareness, aimed to reduce dysregulated focus on the past (ie, rumination) and worries about the future (ie, anxiety).

In contrast, reminiscing about negative experiences may serve a more didactic function; mothers may be trying to help their children to understand how and why such experiences occur, and possibly help their children avoid such experiences in the future.

In this second day, there will be four clinical case presentations, feedback, and didactic information about integrating sand and play therapies and promoting therapy goals for children.

Clinical applicants: A minimum of 15 hours must be didactic training about the provision of reflective supervision / consultation.

About the Process Our Spring and Fall Institutes consist of learning through a combination of large group didactic presentations, group as a whole experiences, small experiential group participation, and observation of the group process.

For those who earn Endorsement ® at IV - Clinical and provide RS / C to others, it is recommended that at least 3 hours of specialized didactic training be about the provision of RS / C.

A minimum of 15 hours must be didactic training about the provision of reflective supervision / consultation.