Instructive

Randall, is very anxious that the services should be what he calls instructive; that courses, for instance, of sermons should be preached on certain books of the Old Testament, on the Pauline ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

What I find most instructive is how New Media folks are critical of his new media stance but pro to his anti-government stance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"It Stinks!" is a way of encouraging readers to pay less attention, since even bad books can be bad in instructive ways. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps the reason I find the fresh-start movement that led to responsible government so fascinating and instructive is that it was led by parties formed specifically for the purpose of change -- the Reform Parties of Upper and Lower Canada. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Similar instances could be given from every country, and one of the most instructive is to be found in the writings of Colonel F.N. Maude, C.B., ❋ Charles Kay (1915)

Again, the relative lack of eroticism in instructive for today’s viewer, as it makes one think about how the nature of what turns us on has changed, or how the options for being turned on have changed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In thinking about robots and the future, a look at the recent past in instructive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this matter of verbosity the example of Westminster is again instructive. ❋ Unknown (1955)

It would be no gain for intellectual culture if all the reasoning were confined to the so-called instructive pictures and the photoplays were served without any intellectual salt. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

A sound theory is therefore an essential foundation for criticism, and it is impossible for it, without the assistance of a sensible theory, to attain to that point at which it commences chiefly to be instructive, that is, where it becomes demonstration, both convincing and sans re'plique. ❋ Carl Von Clausewitz (1805)

Now, the thing that I'll also always come back to, it's a little bit different but I think that it is analogous and instructive, which is every time -- if I take the example of Weight Watchers online, which is simply kind of an innovation in itself, which is a new way of doing Weight Watchers in a different environment, every time we turn on advertising with Weight Watchers online, we are seeing a response in terms of sign-up rates. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I used to think that his death had been some kind of instructive episode, as in My Friend Flicka or The Red Pony; that it had made me a better or at least more compassionate and empathic person. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He also could have called them "instructive" for any politician paying attention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Correction, but to receive wholesome admonition and reproof; which those who relish that kind of instructive writing may peruse in the next chapter. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Does the "chick lit" genre offer that same kind of instructive element? ❋ Unknown (2002)

Since there is - ouch, no /was/ only one of is who thought like me, every meeting of Our Gang, even to catch a movie, was apt into a hate session, with irregular sniping, "instructive" talk past me, and many-on-one pile-ups. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Antibodies. 5 Data on the primary and secondary responses also figure prominently in the second edition; for Burnet this was overwhelming evidence that the then fashionable "instructive" hypothesis of antibody production could not be correct. ❋ Unknown (1997)