While this stigma made life rather difficult for homosexual men, it also had an instructive, not to say repressive, effect on all men.
Talking to them both, it was instructive, not to say reassuring, that their memories of the ground back up those of the Spin, who remembers a dark grey surface so hard that a spiked boot skidded on it rather than penetrated, such that modern needle running spikes, or even trainers, would have been an option if either had been available.
Still, what Mr. Gladwell has to say is instructive.
Writer goes on to say it is instructive in the ways of journalism that the Watergate story was broken by two metropolitan-desk reporters, who had no experience covering national politics, while scores of White House reporters, who were close to the seat of power, were somehow paralyzed.
I have to say, it was instructive to me.
Lists can be instructive, entertaining and protean — which is not to say that every writer carries them off with aplomb.
Partly because there were a lot more interesting things that my grandfather had to say, but also I thought it was instructive to see the dialogue between them.
Still, it was instructive to watch Sanders say, in response to a question from Cooper about whether he considers himself a capitalist, "Do I consider myself part of the casino-capitalist process, by which so few have so much and so many have so little, by which Wall Street's greed and recklessness wrecked this economy?
I like clichés to say in jokes, but I hate people who think they are instructive.
If the boss isn't sure, or doesn't want to say, the fog descends.Mr Blair's recollections of his time at the helm are instructive.
