A rather trite, didactic element thus appears that adds little to a story already rich in moral significance, and it ultimately fails to answer its own question.

While initially inspired by the Mexican muralists, Vlady did not like their nationalist and didactic elements.

"I used to be allergic to the idea of canons," Mr. Benjamin said, especially the "didactic element."

She contributed largely to the hymnology of the Unitarian church, and her poetry generally is strong in the didactic element.

A major part of the revision, he said, lay in trying to excise the overly preachy, didactic elements of the script.

But there are different didactic elements in each production.

The films will have a "didactic element," and will be shown with commentary, he said.

They are powerful works but are sometimes flawed by heavy-handed didactic elements.

These didactic elements are combined with five half-days of supervised patient care per week.

In the poem the reader finds a good deal of the didactic element so popular at the time.