Meanwhile, many writers have offered affecting and instructive stories in which gender is not the fulcrum.

American managers - there are some instructive stories here - are sober and determined, having had their lunch eaten by the Japanese in the 1980's.

It is an instructive story.

Mr. Rauschenberg has told an instructive story about a woman spying the offending "Monogram" in a show at the Jewish Museum during the early 60's.

My dear friend, have you forgotten that instructive story about Siddhartha, the Brahmin's son, which you once told me here?

A director who frequently tangled with the ratings board told me an instructive story.

Then, as a director, I began to see intriguing, instructive stories that could expand perception, not narrow it - that focus on life, not laws.

Nonexperts especially will find Mr. Waugh's story instructive, a helpful introduction to a perhaps underappreciated aspect of the Civil War.

--Why then, said Mr Casey, it is a most instructive story.

Behind it is a curious and instructive story.