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Hi Carolyn: My friend “Sal” is all about making the world a better place, but responds to social media posts with teachy and preachy comments.

All told, “The Inheritance” is a seven-hour affair—nine, if you see it in one day, with a break for dinner—and, although I recommend the first half without reservation, it may not be worth your while, or your dollars, to return for the second, in which Lopez lets his fleet, funny sensibility settle into something regrettably more teachy and preachy.

Art historians have said Puryear’s work taps into the history of the African diaspora without being “preachy or teachy”, just as his artwork has been described as having “a complex worldview devoid of trendy critique”.

In the publication accompanying Mr. Puryear’s solo show at London’s Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, the art historian Robert Storr wrote that the history of the African diaspora “is profoundly ingrained or, more accurately, meticulously bundled by the artist into much if not all of his work, without the artist or the work ever become preachy or ‘teachy.’”

What you describe of your parents is a child’s view of people who, apparently, thought that being a parent meant being strict and teachy all the time.