Sentences with phrase «much of a history lesson»

We have a rollicking parliamentary lesson in «pairing», «nodding through», «wrecking amendments» and the rather ominous «usual channels» — and to avoid too much of a history lesson for an evening at the theatre, it's all set to a soundtrack of David Bowie and Sex Pistols, provided by a live band playing in front of Big Ben's sad old face.

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much less have all those present... second... I still sick and tired of this abuse of separation of church and state... you people need to get a history lesson in how it all came about and the intentions..

Georgia has the oldest wine culture and is pretty much the reason we have orange wine today, making each glass a little history lesson as well as a glimpse into the current (and future) state of skin - contact wines.

The grand, unified theory of this history lesson: There is so much baseball left.

One of the signal results of toxic - stress exposure is a hyperactive fight - or - flight mechanism, which can be a valuable asset in a violent home or neighborhood but is much less helpful during a seventh - grade history lesson.

Miliband: «If he wants a history lesson» he can be reminded of a 2008 speech in which he said «the problem of the last decade is too much regulation».

The lessons of a much more recent strategic disaster in Tory history are looming large.

One of my biggest worries was that it would feel too much like a history lesson or worse: be terribly boring.

Historians would be first to note that the history lesson in Randall Wallace's (The Man in the Iron Mask, Pearl Harbor) screenplay is barely reminiscent of the facts (much taken from the Blind Harry poem, which is generally disregarded as romanticized folklore), but taken as a work of mostly fiction, it is still a rousing and well - executed tale of the inspirational fight for the right not to live under tyranny that has a universal appeal.

I'm not bothered by the storyline and can't say I absorbed much, but I've relished the history lesson in the advancement of Metroid gameplay.

It gives you access to 130 lesson plans, a jackpot of prepared teaching materials on major themes of American history — from the Revolutionary War to art to women's history to archaeology, and much more — all available on the Web.

«As a result of [my mission to Huntsville], classroom learning will be much more activity - based rather than theoretical - things like survivability, the history of space flight, the equipment used... and I will expand on the NASA material to make lesson plans more interesting for the students.»

From gaining a first - hand understanding of the tragic influences of the War Poets, to lessons into politics and insights into significant events in history, the landscape of Belgium has much to offer on a range of subjects.

The lessons of mapmaking and «discovery» apply, of course; unmapped and unexplored regions are often very much alive with culture and history.

If the peanut gallery can't except that, much like how a stubborn child fails to learn the valuable lessons of a loving parent, so be it, because in the final analysis, history will forget those people: for such individuals are lonely, have no humility, and leave this world not with a bang that, but with a pathetic valueless whimper that contributed nothing to further evolve or nurture the arts in its totality.

This short lesson in credit card history is meant to illustrate how much our concept of credit cards has changed over time.

This is as much a history lesson as it is entertainment, lest we forget the roots of great gaming.

In short, he was very much attuned to the mid-19th century world, to its economic and technological development, to its concerns with the lessons of history and the nation's future prospects, to its debates about the contribution of art to civil society and to reflections on the nature of painting.

But a survey of Kim's work is much more than a history lesson in recent movements in art.