instructive

Structured by the grammar of memory and desire, language use is situated in a temporal dimension oriented toward the promise of tomorrow and the instructiveness of yesterday.

For Maine, the instructiveness of Brehon laws lies in their "showing that institutions of modern stamp may be in existence with a number of rules by their side which savour of another and a greatly older order," a lesson that he applies at the end of his lectures by speculation on the pre-feudal survivals still apparent in English law (89).

I value the instructiveness of this engagement almost as much as I value the ways in which David Copperfield has been a touchstone for me.

As he says in his footnotes: 'It is a lesson of high instructiveness to examine the essential qualities which give first-rate poetical rank to lyrics such as Tomorrow or Sally in our Alley Palgrave was doing the equivalent of putting Eleanor Rigby into The Oxford Book of English Verse, and I've no idea why others have not followed his lead.

(2.) If, for the purposes of this article, we group all interventionary moves together, this is not to deny the instructiveness of the detailed investigation of different kinds of moderation, and of their distribution amongst the official moderator and other members.

(149.) The instructiveness of Courts of Indian Offenses for present purposes is not diminished by the fact that federal constitutional limitations are not-applicable to tribal governments.

Bloom Crumpton and Anderson (1999) echo this sentiment by noting that top-level basketball coaches 'instructiveness' positively related to players' attitude toward their coaches.

The book is a beginner's book with a good deal of material, but there is an excess of verbage for the amount of instructiveness. A more thorough introductory chapter that presented in detail a clearly explained analytical method or model would have served the reader better than several sometimes too lengthy chapters that presented the same material over and over.

"The Arkansas cleanup will show the basic interrelationships and instructiveness of our environment," says Mac Berta, area manager of the U.S.