Mr. Ducasse's new restaurant at the Plaza Athenee in Paris offers an instructive contrast.

McGuffey's Eclectic Readers offer an instructive contrast.

His personal narrative also forms an instructive contrast to another which he had occasion to give to the world shortly afterwards, and which shall be duly noticed.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, in "Prozac Nation," evokes mood disorder in a flashy teen-ager, an instructive contrast to Mr. Styron's dour midlife version.

These family pictures provide an instructive contrast to the openly theatrical photographs of Sally Mann, shown recently at the Houk Friedman Gallery on Madison Avenue.

In Lewis's view, Bonds's clouded pursuit of a hallowed baseball record provides instructive contrast to the usual day-glo wrapping that accompanies such milestones.

It makes an instructive contrast with Castle Howard, its neighbor just down the road.

It is an instructive contrast, and there are others, especially among the portraits done before and after his metamorphosis into an American Impressionist at the start of the 1890's.

Two of the country's grandest and most venerable companies, the San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, began their new seasons recently, and they made an instructive contrast.

The two shows made an instructive contrast.