It is so ugly". This dialog, while it might have been intended to instruct, endorsed a mean-spiritedness towards others.
The first studies, called manṣūbāt and dating from Arabic and Persian manuscripts, were intended to instruct players on how to win endgames.
The images in this and other Bucovina monasteries were intended to instruct, entertain and enlighten illiterate soldiers and peasants and to underline their loyalties.
The city milk-dating system bans sale of milk after the city date and is intended to instruct consumers to throw milk out after that date, too.
Though intended to instruct the reader to turn away from the sensuous life and follow the Buddha's path, the work is at its best in descriptions of that very life.
As used in a broad sense, the term nonfictional prose literature here designates writing intended to instruct (but does not include highly scientific and erudite writings in which no aesthetic concern is evinced), to persuade, to convert, or to convey experience or reality through "factual" or spiritual revelation.
It is a textbook on poetics intended to instruct young poets in the difficult metres of the early Icelandic skalds (court poets) and to provide for a Christian age an understanding of the mythological subjects treated or alluded to in early poetry.
Scieszka, an avid reader in his youth, said that he found such schoolroom staples as the Dick and Jane readers—a series of illustrated books presenting simple narratives intended to instruct young children in reading to be akin to "bad castor oil medicine".
We don't know who wrote this, and some commenters have noted that "just make up" could be an awkward choice of words by a non-native speaker of English who intended to instruct his student to make up a sample and then conduct the elemental analysis.
