Sentences with phrase «didacticism with»

Its practitioners traded on their perceived outsider, less - than - critically - savvy statuses to produce work that aligned arid didacticism with visual jokes and wordplay.

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When didacticism is added, children may find the values associated with the superheroes to be no more credible than the powers, particularly when the values urged on children are only given lip service in the real adult world.

The focused image of an exemplary man not walking with the wicked or standing among sinners or sitting with mockers — «Happy is the man who...» — is turned into the bland self - help didacticism of a second - person pronoun in order to avoid the dread masculine reference: «If you would be happy: / never walk with the wicked...» (1:1).

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

Shen Kua was perhaps the greatest of early Chinese scientists, but his writings have none of the conceptual integration of Aristotle or his Muslim and Christian successors: «Notices of the highest originality stand cheek - by - jowl with trivial didacticism, court anecdotes, and ephemeral curiosities.»

We all know that sheer didacticism is nowadays regarded with suspicion in secular educational circles; and there is no need to introduce it into our schools of religion.

This absence of didacticism paired with clever, delicious recipes — think courgette noodles, Swedish saffron buns made with almond butter — is key to the appeal of The Green Kitchen, extracted here.

More egregious is the completely on - the - nose symbolism, offering a didacticism that clashes with the surprising complexity of Cage's central performance.

The didacticism is, for the most part, gracefully meshed with the storytelling, and the special effects never take over the show.

How often are issues like class, race, and (sometimes inadvertently) institutional oppression — all of them fundamental to the largely undiscussed operational mechanics of this country — engaged with deeply without being bogged down by finger - wagging didacticism?

With his poetic vision and grasp of the milieu, Sissako has made the essential film about terrorism without a hint of hysterics or didacticism.

The didacticism may still be in full force for Code Unknown, but Haneke has reworked much of it into a form that never turns off the audience, only interesting them with the scenarios he has brought to the screen.

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

Before seeing the group installed together, as it is in MASTRY, one might have thought it impossible for contemporary painting to simultaneously occupy a position of beauty, difficulty, didacticism, and formalism with -LSB-...]

For his first New York show with Hauser & Wirth, Mark Bradford is presenting a slew of new canvases and video works that reflect his ongoing engagement with what he calls «social abstraction» — abstract art that points towards social and political realities without descending into didacticism.

The signal, with barely intelligible chatter from the FCC, talked at the visitor, and wall text added to the didacticism.

It was a subtle though distinctly cheeky gesture, characteristic of her rigorously playful sensibility: conflating the hallowed sophistication of Minimalist painting with the poolside hotel consumerism of the art fair, while somehow avoiding the didacticism of parody and preserving a degree of elegance.

These biographical facts can imbue his paintings with an unwanted air of didacticism and traditionalism; it's difficult not to see them as examples of the values he espoused as a teacher and the qualities he analyzed in other artists.

But of course it hasn't really, for it is too busy hammering its point home with all the didacticism of a fifth - form project.

Predictably winking but at times also unexpectedly personal and even wistful, Tom Sachs's recent solo show was figured as a kind of material autobiography: a trip down an artistic memory lane paved with a thousand different things, each subsumed within the systematizing logic of his famously relentless, tongue - in - cheek didacticism.