Sentence examples for was as instructive from inspiring English sources

That short conversation was as instructive as an hour-long interview.

"His father's political demise was as instructive to him as anything that his father did while in office," said Bill Turque, author of a recent biography of the vice president, "Inventing Al Gore" (Houghton Mifflin).

Analyzing the work is as instructive as an autopsy.

SOMETIMES confusion can be as instructive as precision.

Their differences were as instructive as their similarities.

And as with history itself, his failures are as instructive as his successes are exhilarating.

For Mr. Obama, a deliberator in an instinctive business, this may be as instructive as any political science text.

Although Saturation 70 itself will never be seen, the story of its making, spontaneous and freewheeling, is as instructive as it is inspirational.

Like Cal Ripken Jr., or Eartha Kitt, or Andrew Wyeth, Oates just keeps going, maintaining a fidelity to her art that is as instructive as it is humbling.

And an account of William Wilberforce's 20-year struggle to abolish slavery might have been as instructive as Spielberg's wordy film Lincoln.

The ideological rigor of this idea, as absolute in its way as the ancient Soviet conviction that any entering wedge of free enterprise would lead to the destruction of the Soviet state, is as instructive as it is astonishing.