Sentences with phrase «too didactic»

The installation embodies Esper's DIY spirit, but it seems too didactic and is less well executed than his other works.

Yet this organization is too didactic.

And just as art that is too didactic can close off all interpretation, art that is too opaque or too ambiguous runs the risk of the viewer deciding that there is actually nothing there.

Monochroma «s plot is one of those rare blends where the story conveys an important moral lesson without being preachy or too didactic.

But good old Sam Goldwyn knew that if you get too didactic, the story suffers.

Lest this sound too didactic, listen to some of the 25 primo projects on offer: water balloon launcher, slingshot, climbing wall, zip line, lava lamp, dollhouse and water - pressurized...

And thanks to Abrahamson's assured, subtly comic style, this thoughtful script never feels too didactic or worse, desperate for Arcade Fire - like hipster cred.

Solid cast - Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins - but this film's beginning is brutally boring, and in all it's too didactic, moving slowly and belabouring most plot points.

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

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

Not exact matches

Perhaps it would seem overly didactic to spell them out, or too much an intrusion of private judgments into a work directed to the public domain.

Teaching needs to be reformed because too much of it is didactic, ingrown, and piecemeal.

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.

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.

As a political statement, American Dreamz is overly didactic and liberal in a read - too - many - blogs sort of way (SmirkingChimp.com, anyone?).

That Coogler manages to work genuine racial issues into the film's narrative without turning it into a didactic ideological crusade is a mark of his dexterity as a storyteller and his commitment to a sense of humanism that is all too often lacking in the world of big action filmmaking.

... To the adult skeptic, the evident Christianity of the Chronicles makes their morality seem pat, the all - too - familiar stuff of tiresome, didactic tales....

The new galleries also incorporate more wall text, or «didactics,» to explain the groupings, and that too is another welcome nugget of innovation squeezed out by the glacial forces of change at the gallery.

Critic Eleanor Heartney described the biennial as «social work or therapy» with pieces that were «numbing didactic,» and said that too many of the «most prominent works simply target the white male power elite as the source of all evil.»

In figurative painting, the danger is always making work that's too literal or didactic.

I find that if I try to stick too closely to the original intent, my paintings become didactic or too illustrative for my liking.

But I guess they shouldn't be too surprised or disappointed to find its reach and influence waning as other, less prescriptive and didactic fora come to the fore.