It is a deeply instructive experience, a very interesting way to think.
"It was a very instructive experience, though not pleasant," he smiles stiffly.
But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense… Finally, this novel continues to be, for its author, a most instructive experience".
Nevertheless, I think it is a highly instructive experience to try to see how many Big Five services you can cut from your life, even if it's just for a few days.
April 30 2014 The chance to hear a major jazz stylist, one accustomed to the role of the leader, take a place as a backing musician in another's ensemble can be an edifying and instructive experience.
Ostia Antica, less than 30km from Rome and reachable by train, offers an altogether more civilised (and arguably more instructive) experience.
The son of a car company chief executive who later became governor of Michigan, Mitt Romney called his mission an "instructive" first experience of deprivation.
As to a long-term nonviolent struggle, there are many instructive experiences.
Researching and writing The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich became one of the most fascinating and most instructive experiences of my life.
