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informative (providing desired information)- He had not yet spoken, and something consolatory and instructive was expected from so renowned a chief on an occasion of such interest.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- It was to be both instructive and true, she said.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- I think it was all the more interesting and instructive because we went for most of the way on one of the slow, old-fashioned canal-boats.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Your most instructive pamphlet has been widely circulated through the patronage of the bishop, and has been of appreciable service....Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- This is instructive at the same time.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- 25 "A maximum of instructive shrecklichkeit with minimum loss of life.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- I find it most instructive to follow your train of thought.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- I was fooling myself that this was important or even instructive.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- That was very instructive, although you would have done well to omit your last words.Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
- Instructive warning pictures.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Chapter XXI — Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- On her first day of the two months' preliminary training, Briony's humiliation in front of the class had been instructive.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- The case of India is particularly instructive.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- I found the trip instructive in another way because in that hospital I sensed a thawing in the relationship between black and white.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- In that case, I said to myself, Hamid's silence must be instructive!Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Meanwhile it was in a terrible way instructive to see how Oliver behaved, how unruffled he tried to appear.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- General Lee's various stratagems will be most instructive, most illuminating.Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels
- Nevertheless, it is instructive to observe the details.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- His voice was highpitched but deliberate, instructive.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy