Sentences with phrase «object lesson»

I like the fact that apart from the guitar's obvious pleasure as a musical instrument, it can also teach object lessons in life and business.

These are great object lessons for the need for responsible development, not merely development for development's sake.

There were specific instances where he didn't wash before a meal, but those were done as object lessons, and did not represent his usual pattern of behavior.

And I taught all about latch — We had a fun object lesson using balloons — don't forget, baby's chin is basically a magic open button!

Then He became the ultimate object lesson by giving those same hands and feet as nail - platforms.

My little object lesson through role - playing was drawn from actual experiences.

Find a book to read on the topic and prepare a quick object lesson appropriate to the grade.

If I might offer a little advice, you would do well to try and emulate your co-authors, particular your father and Richard McNider (above), who provide good object lessons of how people can disagree over substance and yet discuss issues without getting personal and without misrepresenting the other person's statements.

The attempted raids on McDonalds and other companies in recent years provide object lessons in this destructive financial policy of «shareholder activists.»

With over 4,000 objects representing more than two dozen collectors, including contemporary artists making art conceived by collecting, Massimiliano Gioni, the museum's artistic director, and his team of curators have mounted a remarkable series of object lessons about what it means to «keep,» the relationship of possession to loss, the madness inherent in love, and the undeniable importance of the individual's voice in recording and interpreting history and its sweep.

Recent cinema has been rife with object lessons on why it's probably better to risk angering fans of source material rather than sacrifice momentum (look no further than Watchmen), so it stands to reason that Azkaban benefits from having taken the road less traveled, even if it wasn't the way that the original fans wanted it to go.

And because, if you ask me, his observation would have made a handy object lesson for today's besieged chief marketing officers.

What motivated these German anti-Nazis to resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots of the moral evil of Nazism by understanding the source of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).

Unfolding as a series of terrifying object lessons in Newtonian physics, the movie lends new meaning to the phrase «spatial geometry.»

In 1978 John Ashbery, writing in New York Magazine, suggested that «Christopher [Knowles] seems to be providing the world with a much needed object lesson: that it is possible, in art, to be both careless and rigorous at the same time.»

While I recognize the dangers of drawing too many object lessons from Hollywood cinema, that brief scene encapsulates much of the public's misunderstanding and misapprehension of the Canadian parole system.

Jesus» approach to asking questions, setting up real life object lessons and telling stories in all his Hebrew - ness has been swallowed up by our Greek driven minds.

Its a real object lesson for how climate science needs to become much more multi-disciplinary and open.

One of the all - time greatest object lessons on teamwork has been recognized in many cultures, such as in this purportedly comes from a Kenyan proverb and a well known Aesop fable.

The connection between religious passion and sexual passion is all too obvious — Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard being examples in evangelical circles (other communities have their own object lessons), and Byassee's solution (if such it is meant to be) is perhaps too subtle.

Do you take the Annais story as literal, though, or just a nasty object lesson fit for readers at that time?

God chose to have the Israelites to carry out His judgment, rather than instantly, to achieve two goals: 1) punish sin and 2) provide a real and long lasting object lesson.

Many of us who grew up in the Church sat through at least one or two horrific object lessons reinforcing the idea that premarital sex ruins a person for good.

The defeat of Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle in 2004, he said, was a «political object lesson» about the dangers of obstruction (Allen helped oversee that GOP victory as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee).

«Budgets are always object lessons in priorities.

The celebrity cameos from Duck Dynasty members Willie and Korie Robertson and the Newsboys are low key object lessons in defusing conflict rather than escalating it.

Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called it a «prime object lesson in the degradation that can face Hollywood actresses, especially those over 40,» contrasting Stone's performance here with her turn as Laura in last year's Broken Flowers, where she was «luminous and touching... partly because the role called for her to act her age, and she happily complied.»

Marsan could have made Scott maybe 40 percent as horrible a person and still achieved the same purpose, without crossing the line from human being into object lesson.

Readers of this book will also be exposed to a riveting and well - documented object lesson as Hirsch recounts the sorry fate of academic achievement in France after that country abandoned its longstanding national curriculum.

It was a bracing object lesson in the possibilities of participatory democracy.

Observation journals are an exceptional tool for connecting object lessons to your curriculum, but perhaps more importantly, they help to lay a foundation for your students to become lifelong learners.

As for highlighting my ex-ZMNO performance, I would have thought it served as an obvious object lesson in the value of Rule 1.

A superb draftsman, he gave an in - depth intonation to an imagery that made of even the simplest everyday object a lesson in refinement and sensuality.

Together, they would serve as literally object lesson in what what must be destroyed if culture is to live.

A nice object lesson for clients taking a passive approach to life's choices or for explaining the downside of an external locus of control.

What's included: - Warm Up (4 per page to save paper)- Smelly Balloon Object Lesson (teacher materials needed: 3 balloons & various smelling objects such as vanilla, perfume, garlic, essential oils, etc. to model diffusion).

Trump has provided object lessons of what you should never do.

Perhaps a good object lesson in why indexing is so much easier.

Maryland and Wake Forest will be providing object lessons in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and SMU and TCU in the Southwest.