Sentences with phrase «not didactic»

It's not didactic, but it has very specific references: the Klan or the White House or Shirley Chisholm» — the first black woman elected to Congress and first black politician to run for president.

«The show is not didactic,» Mr. McShine said.

Their work communicates beyond the context of the fine art world; it's private and public, it's political but not didactic, it's humorous but poignant.

In other words, his sessions were not instructor - led; not didactic.

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.

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.

But his plays are not didactic, he insists.

While they may have a social message, the stories have to be fun, not didactic.

Nowadays, Bartkowski's conversation is sprinkled with references to God and the Bible, but he isn't didactic.

This isn't a didactic film as much as a deep portrait of an unstoppable cycle of violence, wherein the line between vigilantes, the cartels they're fighting, and the Mexican government is almost indiscernible.

Not exact matches

Of course there's any number of ways to introduce new hires to company history, and you don't want to get too didactic.

But Grenny doesn't think business owners should be didactic.

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.

Yet Cry, the Beloved Country is in some ways a «message» book, it is within the didactic Christian tradition and not, I believe, in the parabolic tradition at its best.

Let the heroes, then, not be more moral or didactic but more interesting and lifelike, engaged in struggles whose outcome could be in real doubt.

What can not entirely be dealt with in didactic propositions is not ipso facto morally indifferent.

Let the heroes not be more moral or didactic, but more interesting and lifelike, engaged in struggles whose outcome could be in real doubt.

Not so welcome is the fact that antiheroism, often in the form of parody or self - parody, exists alongside heroism: moreover, most presentations of moral heroism are handicapped by an overtly didactic, hard - sell approach.

It is not all strictly epic in character but a combination of epic and didactic material which has been incorporated into it.

It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly conscious levels of human experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or other types of Christian worship.

Didactic writings issued from think tanks aren't very likely to influence behavior.

They are relentlessly didactic: they poke fun at others» absurdities, but not at their own.

You hear the voice of the teacher - things are well explained and events set in context so that their real significance can be understood - but the style is not too formal or didactic.

I happen to agree with Mr. Greenberg that The Moviegoer is Percy's best novel, in large part because it is the least didactic, but it can not be denied that Percy meant to express the truths of the Catholic catechism in his novels.

Not only didactic material but some narrative is included among the sayings, sometimes in ballad form.

All training should include didactic and skills - based training - there is not a limit to how many hours or CEU's are offered, however the recommended standard for staff education according to the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative includes 15 hours of didactic and 5 hours of clinical skills training.

The problem is he doesn't write entertaining plays, but dreary, overlong, didactic essays more suited to the pages of Prospect than the stage.

For example, because there would be such a large gap between the final clinical years and the beginning of medical school, I did not think that a traditional, purely didactic curriculum would be as useful as those that also included a problem - based learning aspect.

Some barriers still remain that will require political action — there is no equivalent to the American tenure system in Germany, which is a harsh limitation for the independence of young scientists, and the need for a further round of scientific qualification after the Ph.D., the so called habilitation, does not really stimulate didactic enthusiasm.

Our affiliation with the University of California San Francisco allows post doctoral trainees to take advantage of many didactic and other training opportunities often not possible at a small independent research institute.

In response, the CienciaPR has developed a topic guide (Spanish) for the book to help integrating the content to the classroom setting, and has developed a series of workshops for teachers, demostrating how to use the essays as didactic tools, not just for science, but also for Spanish, art, and other subjects.

This one called Blink is an easy read and not too didactic.

I try not to be overly didactic when it comes to other people's eating habits, though.

On screen, it's difficult not to notice how much «Death and the Maiden» remains a didactic play.

Otherwise, this is a dialogue - heavy, extremely didactic, filmed play, a good one, but not the most cinematic experience you'll ever have.

Although Michael J. Kospiah's script isn't exactly predictable or didactic, it does feel contrived and improbable on occasion.

Films that deal with moral issues in a direct way are often tagged, rightly or not, as preachy and didactic.

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.

The combat action ain't all that, lacking the invigorating disorientation of the first film and its didactic pleasure in detailing the survivalist's process.

It's too much to say that this is what television was made for — since it was also made for professional wrestling and situation comedies — but it is part of its original promise and compact, that ennobling great works of art (ennobling in their greatness, that is, not in any didactic way) be made available to all, in the comfort of our own homes.

Forman does not make a heavy, didactic point of this loss of personal freedom, but the sense of social imprisonment, of individuals sacrificed to the needs of an invisible, unapproachable government, informs every scene of Loves of a Blonde.

Hazanavicius, who also wrote the screenplay, is unquestionably sincere, but subtlety is not his forte, to say the least; The Search rolls over its thinly conceived characters like a Russian tank, flattening each one into a didactic position paper.

Lest you think this is a purely didactic piece, it is not.

It is not overly didactic or preachy and instead gets the perfect balance of emotional impact, political commentary and historical re-enactment.

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.

Much like the novel, the film takes a matter - of - fact yet thought - provoking perspective on the central underlying fact that governs the character's lives — never didactic nor preachy, but encouraging you to construct the rest of society (which exists as a sort of negative space against which our characters appear in sharp relief) and the ethical concerns that the film brings up but doesn't answer.

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.

scenario, doesn't get wrapped up in a blame game, and is far more inspirational than didactic.

The most difficult thing in performing these experiments consisted not in finding out the proper strategies and methods to conceive the steps of the didactic enterprise, but in what way should the wonder be awaken, and determined the students to live an inner experience which is a fundamental component of understanding.

The letter argued that the standards would lead to «long hours of instruction» in literacy and math, inappropriate testing, and didactic instruction that would» [cut] off children's initiative, curiosity, and imagination, limiting their later engagement in school and the workplace, not to mention responsible citizenship.»