You might imagine that products of artistic resistance to the party line would be exciting; all that pent-up creativity, rage, hope and despair should yield visions of lively cultural and political insurrection that Westerners who take their freedoms for granted would find instructive if not inspirational.
The Getty Trust sponsored some expensive interviews in the 1990's, asking what visitors liked about museums, which displays they found instructive, what kinds of promotion worked better than others.
He finds instructive a recent deal in which Stamford, Conn., based Crane Corp. bought Merrimac Industries, a maker of components that process radio frequency and microwave signals for military and aerospace uses.
Manafort's firm, Davis Manafort, had produced an analysis of the Orange Revolution that Yanukovych found instructive, according to one report.
I find it especially instructive to look at spending levels three years into each man's administration — that is, in the first quarter of 1984 in Reagan's case, and in the first quarter of 2012 in Mr. Obama's — compared with four years earlier, which in each case more or less corresponds to the start of an economic crisis.
Obviously, India is not America, but both countries were born in popular protest (against the same empire) and I found it instructive to examine my Occupying countrymen from this vantage point.
Being something of a grocery store snob, I found it instructive to hunt down Old El Paso refried beans and discover that their Vegetarian had only five grams of fat while Fat Free was exactly that.
I found it instructive to hear a historian, in a video accompanying the show, recall growing up like most French intellectuals during the 1950s and '60s and lumping Labrouste in with all the other unfashionable detritus of 19th-century bourgeois culture.
I find watching films also instructive.
Each time I do this, it reminds me how the best of storytelling should be, and I find that truly inspirational, and instructive too.
