Sentence examples for instructive account from inspiring English sources

Unable to resist a calamity, preternatural or otherwise, Cotton Mather disseminated an instructive account of her compact.

Students of business organization could take this instructive account as a textbook; unfortunately, it reads like one.

In his enjoyable and instructive account, Humphrey, an emeritus professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, looks at consciousness in evolutionary terms to explain how the "magical interiority of human minds" creates the foundation for existence.

In her incomplete but often instructive account of being a fly on the wall, the anthropologist Dr Gillian Evans observes how the shifting political tides led to a constant turnover of senior staff and shifting sands.

The New Yorker, January 24, 2000 P. 87 Briefly Noted review of "Just Six Numbers" (Basic; $22) by Martin Rees... Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, has written a brief, readable, and profoundly instructive account of where cosmological knowledge stands at this moment...This is the kind of book that transforms not only how you look at a clear winter sky but also how you think about life itself.

(For an instructive account of a notion of concurrence with such a result, see Freddoso (1991).) The avoidance of Deism thus becomes as problematic for the ontological dependence approach as for the transitional approach.

It's an instructive story.

Packed with glorious anecdotes, some funny, others shocking, it remains instructive, with accounts of newspapers routinely paying police officers for information, and sometimes to escape prosecution.

He gave the reader an instructive and amusing account of pitfalls in the lecture trade.

Two graphs introduce the text of "The Endgame," Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor's instructive yet analytically shallow account of the Iraq war after the fall of Baghdad.

Also instructive are the detailed accounts of Mr. Romney's unsuccessful effort to unseat Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994 and his unsuccessful effort to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 — accounts that shed some light on his chameleonlike political stands and his current travails in the primary process.