What's the difference between didactic and preachy?

Didactic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Didactical
  • (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
  • (2) Although 100 per cent claim that gastrointestinal endoscopy is provided by their program, only 76 per cent have formal endoscopy training, usually centered around the PGY 3 level, with only 23 per cent having didactic lectures in endoscopy.
  • (3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
  • (4) The first three months of the program are devoted to didactic training and the remaining six months to acquiring practical experience.
  • (5) If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
  • (6) The use of the workshop as a didactical method in the presentation of clinical practica to community health nursing students at the distance teaching University of South Africa is described.
  • (7) Group 1 was given general objectives and information regarding availability of recommended resources, including self-learning materials for the elective, didactic seminars, and viewbox exposure.
  • (8) Interestingly, this study found that the students' self-assessed changes between post-didactic training and post-clinical training were significant in only one area--their ability to manage the medical emergencies of elderly patients, including a patient's death in the dental chair.
  • (9) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
  • (10) Many general surgeons have incorporated laparoscopic cholecystectomy into their clinical practices, usually after completing a postgraduate didactic and laboratory animal training course.
  • (11) The didactic value is underlined by color photographs taken of diseased skin and nails with the dermatoscope at various magnifications.
  • (12) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
  • (13) The 30-day hospital training program described includes both didactic material and on-the-job experience.
  • (14) Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience.
  • (15) Training consisted of didactic presentations on the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and information on use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-A).
  • (16) This set of objectives may be used to guide a one-month radiology rotation or serve as part of a teaching program integrated with didactic training and emergency department experience.
  • (17) Didactic purposes and proof of plausibility may require more data than just the final results.
  • (18) Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure.
  • (19) To introduce the residents to the principles of surgical techniques in a simulated environment outside the operating room, the program consisted of a combination of two didactic sessions and six "wet labs" taking 3 to 4 hours per week for 8 weeks between January and March each year.
  • (20) The sessions vary in structure from didactic lecture to group work.

Preachy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There's funny and joking, the two are different … As things progressed, both with adult and junior books, I found that in subtle kinds of ways, without being preachy at all, you could suggest rather interesting things."
  • (2) This is where you may think I’m getting a little preachy, but I’m genuinely trying to avoid that.
  • (3) Oliver's playfulness gives him licence to criticise that which in hosts Bill Maher or Piers Morgan comes off as aggressive, preachy or so politically skewed as to be pandering to one cause or another.
  • (4) Despite the circumstances, this blog is far from preachy – Erin's refreshing approach to vegetarian cooking feels more like a journal, less like an example.
  • (5) And if there are many respectful quibbles about the nature of Sorkin's preachy drama, there isn't anyone who's saying, it's just not true.
  • (6) The flip side of Cash's gritty, carved-from-stone persona was a tendency to preachiness, and this came to the fore in a string of long-winded "concept" albums such as Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Sweat And Tears (1963) and True West (1965).
  • (7) Every story is a manual on how to be a good person, but without ever being preachy.
  • (8) They can be preachy and holier-than-thou, even as their scandal-hit ministers keep coming.
  • (9) That preachy, patronising thing – it was necessary at the time, but audiences have become more sophisticated."
  • (10) That’s part of what Robin Williams did with socially conscious material – he made you laugh, but he also taught you something, and not in a preachy way, either.
  • (11) Her voice was insistent but not preachy, her analysis detailed but never obscure.
  • (12) The ad staked out the London Paper's claim as the liberal voice of London, dispensing with the "lecturing and preachy tone of its rival" and reflecting "the racial, sexual, cultural, economic and political diversity" of the capital.
  • (13) Pride engages the audience not in party politics or preachy agendas, but in much bigger concepts of generosity and compassion.
  • (14) Far from being preachy and simplistic, Brecht proves to be pungent and complex.
  • (15) Several months in, she got a nanny and she now works at least three hours a day on the site, which has been compared to Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop , though it's less preachy.