Sentence examples similar to an instructive aside from inspiring English sources

There's all kinds of extraneous material hanging round at the top of each chapter: recipes (some of which, it must be said, sound delicious); orphaned pieces of anthropological data about the Igbo; instructive asides about the uses and mythology of the kola nut.

He never mentioned whether he was tempted, even once, to take a particularly instructive specimen aside to offer comfort and help.

Their brief interlude swept aside negative thinking and he regards it today as an instructive moment.

They make an instructive pair.

It's an instructive story.

It was an instructive start.

"Duck Soup" is an instructive case.

Anger is an instructive emotion.

Pure coincidence offers an instructive footnote.

The Europeans struck an instructive balance.

They provided an instructive, if unusual, experiment.