Sentence examples for instructive essays from inspiring English sources

The anthology is indeed huge — more than eight hundred pages — and it includes charming, instructive essays by some of my former Post colleagues, and some happy surprises, such as selections from the journals of Ellen Maury Slayden, the wife of a long-forgotten congressman.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, in his very instructive essay on Orwell ("Why Orwell Endures," Feb. 14), refers to a "largely Jewish" readership of Partisan Review in 1945, when the British sage wrote for the journal.

Andrew Tabler, one of our country's leading experts on Syria, wrote an instructive essay in Foreign Policy on July 19 declaring that the U.S. and Europe should begin boycotting Syrian oil exports -- setting forth 6 specific rational steps which could be taken to hasten the regime's downfall.

Thus, as Sherry Buchanan notes in an instructive catalog essay, while "art to serve the people" became the official dogma after the the French defeat in 1954, some artists continued to paint and draw in a more Impressionistic French style.

It is instructive that his essay includes the phrase You don't (despite withering cultural pressure), have to use a computer, but you can't escape language.

Besides, all criticism teaches us how to read; literary essays instruct best when they are not overtly instructive.

Songs can be instructive for writers of personal essays.

In conclusion, I think that Koonin and Wolf essay will be very instructive for the broad audience of the students of evolution and their opponents alike.

"Photography's Other Histories," an anthology of 12 essays edited by the anthropologists Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson, is an instructive contribution to this continuing effort to revise our understanding of photography.

GORE VIDAL'S new book, "The Last Empire," contains 48 essays, four or five of which are quite good -- lively, instructive, lucid and amusing.

His instructive and entertaining new book, "The Missionary and the Libertine," a collection of 25 essays published in The New York Review of Books between 1985 and 1995, reinforces his reputation as a modern Orientalist with an original voice.