Word: didacticism
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In long passages the voice flowed on, flat and didactic, as if it were weak and being nursed along: "The National Socialist State - our 2,000-year-old civilization -can neither be replaced by Bolshevism nor by democratic-p'utocratic ideology. . . . This nation . . . and its leading men are unshakable...
Hawk-eyed, didactic General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery is the darling of the British public, the despair of the brass-hatted British War Office. Many a tender-skinned staff officer has quoted an apocryphal toast, usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "To General Montgomery! Indomitable in defeat, indefatigable in attack, insufferable...
This time, the President hoped, the luggage and briefcases would be accurately packed. Said he: "If you want to be didactic and put it in terms of figures, I would say that so far, in all of the conferences we have held with the other members of the United Nations...
Rather unexpectedly, the play comes to life not in its dramatic scenes but in its didactic ones. At such moments, even in Refugee Bruckner's halting translation, Nathan the Wise has timeliness and force. The rest of the time it is cluttered with an old-fashioned plot that, in...
was John Wheelwright, who died (aged 43) last month. Harvard-man, architectural historian, Socialist, he was one of the most famous unheard-of poets in the U. S. Wheelwright's reputation is based on several books of crankily learned, lyrically didactic verse. Political Self-Portrait, like its predecessors, is...