Sentence examples for are instructive about from inspiring English sources

The books are instructive about ancient tribal beliefs and customs, from purification rituals to incest taboos.

And both, it seems, are instructive about the difficulties of predicting technological progress.

Mr. Wilson's rise to prominence has been unusual, though, and full of ironies that are instructive about intellectual politics today.

But his anecdotes about going alone to music gigs are instructive about what's to come, as he talks about flipping out when Prince makes his entrance through a trapdoor or whooping too loudly when David Bowie sings a Velvet Underground tune: his reactions are more vociferous than anyone else's.

The findings about young women's awareness and pressure to emulate those who are better off are instructive about the use of transactional sex in societies that are not only poor, but also defined by local economic inequalities.

Indeed, much about the "Forget You" story is instructive about promotion of music online.

"It was intended to be instructive about the right way to deal with things.

The experience of sex workers themselves is instructive about both models.

The shift is instructive about the past — and perhaps the future.

And, in that sense, "Burton and Taylor" is instructive about how to make a movie about outsize movie stars.

Still, the experiences of 2001 might be instructive about what regular-season games will look like if replacements are used.