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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

It was shot in black-and-white, a visual choice that nods to iconic New York films, most instructively from Woody Allen and Spike Lee.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

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

There was an instructively comparable non-crisis in Washington shortly after Andrew Jackson became president. 

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2015

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama