She looked about the pale walls of her sitting-room, seeking counsel of ancestral daguerreotypes and didactic samplers; but they seemed to make utterance more difficult.
" Adam Bede—drowned" ? said Hetty, letting her arms fall and looking rather bewildered, but suspecting that her aunt was as usual exaggerating with a didactic purpose.
" Lectures have been fading as a useful didactic model for 10 years, but we continue to use them, " says Dr. Steven Abramson, NYU's vice dean for education, faculty and academic affairs.
'What is so unusual in you, ' she said, in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker, 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things'.