A pint of ‘for instance’ is worth a gallon of abstraction You could just say that in Cleopatra’s time, women had few legal rights. Or you could illustrate that point with an example, as Stacy Schiff does in Cleopatra: A Life: “[I]n a city where women enjoyed the same legal rights as infants or chickens, the posting called upon a whole new set of skills.” They may be the … [Read more...] about Examples prove the rule