diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 83d2358..2161706 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1700,11 +1700,11 @@
    reverse iteration.  It should return a new iterator object that iterates
    over all the objects in the container in reverse order.
 
-   If the :meth:`__reversed__` method is not provided, the
-   :func:`reversed` builtin will fall back to using the sequence protocol
-   (:meth:`__len__` and :meth:`__getitem__`).  Objects should normally
-   only provide :meth:`__reversed__` if they do not support the sequence
-   protocol and an efficient implementation of reverse iteration is possible.
+   If the :meth:`__reversed__` method is not provided, the :func:`reversed`
+   builtin will fall back to using the sequence protocol (:meth:`__len__` and
+   :meth:`__getitem__`).  Objects that support the sequence protocol should
+   only provide :meth:`__reversed__` if they can provide an implementation
+   that is more efficient than the one provided by :func:`reversed`.
 
 
 The membership test operators (:keyword:`in` and :keyword:`not in`) are normally