It was more illuminating than the seven-leader debate two weeks ago, and at times it was riveting.
Still, as irritating as it is, at least it is more illuminating than the Twilight trailer teaser, which lasted all of 12 seconds.
Also absent is most of Mailer's writing on movies, which has often been more illuminating than the work of professional movie critics.
In a way the brief puzzled quotations just cited (most come from an excellent foreword) are more illuminating than the 600 pages that follow.
This memoir, "The Mind of Wall Street" (Public Affairs, $26), written with Eugene Linden and appearing in bookstores next month, is more illuminating than the typical blow-by-blow recounting of a lifetime of deals.
In a cogent program note that is more illuminating than the play, Ms. Ruhl writes, "At an historical moment when it sometimes seems as if we are in the middle of a contemporary holy war, I hope this play is taken in the spirit it was written - in the spirit of conversation".
Seeing its progress would be more illuminating than having to piece it together.
Yet a prophecy that goes wrong can be more illuminating than one that goes right.
Appealing to the senses, poetic representation can be more illuminating than representations produced by logical processing and reasoning.
As one-man shows go, this play, by George Stevens, Jr., is more illuminating than most.
