"The Landscaping Revolution is an enjoyable, instructive polemic against the American greensward, unless its moss or buffalo grass, a polemic, in fact, against nonnative planting in general and the laws -- written and implicit -- that force it down our throats.
It was instructive to run up against your limits in skill and daring, and it was enjoyable to burrow into yourself for a while, to see how long you could stay out there alone when the other kids were tossing quarters into machines in the arcade.
This example is very instructive, as it cautions against interpreting every feature of an organism (domestic or wild) as an adaptation brought about directly through selection.
Before resigning ourselves to a similar spell of disillusioned sleeplessness, it might be instructive to test this theory against a particular case of philanthropy.
So after a week in which Arsenal recorded three successive victories, including the famous win against Bayern Munich that has revitalised their Champions League campaign, the Frenchman's analysis of his team's latest performance against Everton was instructive.
It is instructive to compare the Laplace against the Gaussian distribution, which is commonly used as prior in the linear model.
On this, the United States' 40-year history of pressuring Japan to let the yen appreciate against the dollar is instructive.
But midway into Bush's first term, measuring the emerging president against Reagan is an instructive way of looking at Bush's qualities and of explaining his popularity.
Burrell opposite Kyle Eastmond and Dave Attwood against Lawes will be instructive, too, with Northampton's defensive line-speed unlikely to permit the kind of space Leicester permitted.
It's instructive to check Volokhonsky-Pevear's English against the Russian.
