Congress often operates quite differently from the classic textbook model.

The log of this trip remained a textbook model for later captains for centuries.

Milton tells us that he summons up all the orator's art for this final push: his speech is certainly a textbook model.

"This is a textbook model for a successful strategic investment," he said in a statement.

I won't try to push this parable (actually just a colorful version of a standard textbook model) any further.

In recent years, the legislative process in Congress has often been twisted so it looks nothing like the textbook model of how a bill becomes law.

In summer 2007 the firm launched "textbookflix.com" which used the textbook rental model.

The early predawn raid was a textbook model.

Therefore, since a non-covered sector exists nearly everywhere, the predictions of the textbook model simply cannot be relied on.

Each is a textbook model of linear narrative.