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In Pride and Pleasure, Vaill uses two voices, applying tone aesthetically and instructively, almost as Miranda does.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

Perchance enjoys a “gentle winter climate” — the novel’s sole mention of “climate,” instructively — but autumn is another story.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

It’s ersatz, to be sure, but no more ersatz, say, than the world of Cusk’s novels, where everyone the narrator meets happens to be instructively and tirelessly voluble.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

But the Chiuri take on Paris, as expressed in an eclectic line-up of slogan T-shirts, houndstooth capes, embroidered denim and tiered lace, is an instructively unconventional one.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

They’d dropped any masquerade and were just wonderfully, powerfully, and instructively themselves.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama