Slaves related human as well as animal trickster tales; they told Bible stories, explanatory tales, moralistic and didactic tales, supernatural tales and legends. — Lawrence W. Levine , The Unpredictable Past ,

For two decades, many Americans, including some early advocates of the Vietnam intervention, have been relentlessly didactic , extracting cautionary lessons from Vietnam. — George F. Will , Newsweek ,

—the trappings, one might say—of a didactic and resolutely pious Victorian sensibility in the service of an anarchic imagination. — Joyce Carol Oates , The Profane Art ,

the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion