Sentence examples for if instructive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Levy would not have been wowed by this modest if instructive show of 21 drawings, all but one sketched in graphite or ink between 1928 and 1935.

If so, instructive lessons can be found in the contrasting ways two of his predecessors, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, navigated a perilous way ahead in Vietnam.

If the instructive hypothesis is correct, we expect that Wnt would repel anterior D-type axons locally because LIN-44 is now expressed by the adjacent body wall muscles.

They provided an instructive, if unusual, experiment.

If history is instructive, there is no foolproof, definitive way you can legislate against stupidity.

Is political correctness a problem in America today?" Polls about perceptions can be instructive, if they're scientifically valid.

We have already had two this year — "Dear John" and this one — and a comparison is instructive, if also exhausting.

But one innings can change that – and it would be helpful and instructive if he could start bowling soon.

The English-language version is more cosmopolitan, offering a non-Western view of world events that is instructive, if not always persuasive.

It is an instructive if not necessarily exemplary solution to the writer-mother's perennial challenge of combining creative work with being a parent.

We haven't seen Mr Perry face a serious threat to his political fortunes in more than ten years, so it will be instructive if at some point during the campaign it looks like he's losing everything.