How to Use didactic in a Sentence

didactic

adjective

• The challenge was pulling that off in a way that didn’t feel didactic.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• And use your voice in a way that doesn’t feel preachy or overly didactic.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 16 Feb. 2018
• No one’s being used as a device to shove some kind of message or be didactic.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 June 2024
• One of my favorite critiques of my work was that someone called it didactic.
  — Liza Donnelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Yet Dupieux doesn’t stage any of this in a didactic or judgmental way.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
• And so wars — or rather how not to lose them — are the general theme of his often didactic book.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Davis’ book makes sense of all this without being overly didactic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• The effect is indirect or silent, at least if the fiction is good and not didactic.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 July 2023
• Sweet Country is a somber film, but not a didactic or overly worthy one.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
• But the wall text, overly didactic, has the effect of holding the subject at arm’s length.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• Colleagues on both sides of the aisle described him as principled and didactic.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• This mix of sci-fi, gender studies and dude comedics might easily have failed to gel, or come off as stagey and didactic.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 July 2023
• Over the same period, church leaders grew more didactic about women’s roles.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
• Polley transforms what could be a talky, didactic film into a drama of pace and movement.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2022
• The best of her poems are brilliant and compelling; others are uneven and feel talky or didactic.
  — Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2022
• At no point did that show pause the action to get up on a soapbox and be all didactic for the sake of scoring some easy points with the woke left.
  — Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021
• The scale is simply too vast for any didactic artistic critique to feel adequate.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The film is organic, all of a piece and, for Garland, somewhat on the nose and didactic.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
• Some of the more didactic or philosophical sections, on the other hand, can sound forced.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
• These windows have always been didactic, using pictures to teach those who couldn't read the Bible.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The plot takes a didactic turn, with the writer-director hanging a question mark over the ending.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• Which is fine, except that the update is as flatly didactic as the earlier version would've been.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 11 May 2018
• The decisive shift in focus feels edged with something didactic, Eliot-like.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
• Even more useful are the didactic materials in the room itself.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• When that becomes apparent, more than halfway through the performance, the play takes a turn for the didactic.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• The rapid-fire jokes don’t all land, the supporting characters can be cartoonish and the satire didactic.
  — James Poniewozik, The Seattle Times, 4 May 2017
• Prose can do these things too, but the model is often more didactic, explanatory, and, at its worst, plodding.
  — Rebecca Solnit may 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
• Ben and Violet did a fantastic job because the film is not didactic.
  — Jennie Punter, Variety, 4 May 2022
• Ironically, the less didactic, the more powerful a film can be.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• At the start of Byrne’s career, his approach was less didactic, and his stance was more confrontational.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025