Sentences with phrase «object lessons»

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.

The whole thing serves as an object lessons in the degree of public trust involved in the university's involvement in gaining property rights over inventions related to research, and how this trust can be lost sight of amid what is assumed to be the natural and unassailable rights of property holders.

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.

Three exhibitions currently on view in New York City — Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, and the Hilma af Klint exhibition that is secreted within The Keeper exhibition at the New Museum — provide object lessons on the necessity of seeing «in person» artworks that in reproduction appear flat and graphic in a way that stays fixed at the level of an image with no scale so that when looking at the images most people, particularly those brought up entirely within the regime of Instagram would not see why they should see the works and, further, might not be able to see the work when in front of it because many people now see exclusively through the lens of their smart phone.

OBJECT LESSONS will be a weekly seminar with a visiting artist about a text or work of their choosing.

Scott, Andrea, «The New New Things: Sculpture Center offers too many object lessons,» Time Out NY, June 22, 2005

Maybe that is why I loved the stage for its emptiness and object lessons.

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.

The other members of the band fade away as bystanders, object lessons, or seat - fillers and Andrew's fleeting attempts at romance are all about how Fletcher's influence infects him with the same emotional brutality.

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.

The miseries of the plague years are taken as object lessons in the evils of colonialism.

It is deeply unfortunate that your stories serve as object lessons of the dangers of homebirth, but, in my judgment, the loss is compounded if we refuse to learn from these deaths, if we refuse to acknowledge just how common they are, if we let substandard self - proclaimed «midwives» continue practicing, and if we allow organizations like MANA (the Midwives Alliance of North America) to get away with hiding serial «babyslaugher,» the newborn equivalent of unintentional manslaughter deaths.

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

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.

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.

Kawasaki, a skillful communicator, employs numerous Western teaching methods such as flip charts and object lessons to get his point across.

Most of us seem to think that Jesus» primary teaching method was storytelling and parables and object lessons.

And I'm not just talking about object lessons where a pastor brings a ladder or a watermelon on stage, and illustrates a sermon point with them.

Later Old Testament: God speaks through chosen prophets and object lessons and writing on walls.

The Old Testament explains the fall of man, and God's object lessons and promises regarding the coming Messiah.

Two, the parables of Adam and Eve are for less evolved humans, they're like children's bedtime stories with object lessons.

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.

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.

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

That guy across the train car isn't just a potential competitor for the one open seat, he's also an object lesson in empathy, Krznaric insists.

An object lesson arrived in 2005, after her first run to become chancellor.

For Butterfield, it's a handy object lesson: If you're willing to tolerate squeaky chairs, what else are you letting slide?

For an object lesson, Mr. Ford's brand managers might consider the story of Hummer.

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

But it is also — in an admittedly self - serving sense — the «best» of times, because Ford's abysmal leadership serves as an object lesson in how not to lead, and reminds everyone of just how important leadership really is.

It could if you paid attention to the annual sale of tasty baked goods not just as a chance for philanthropy and gluttony, but also as an object lesson in moving product.

But as an object lesson in the connection between low unemployment and rising prices, Midland and Odessa does have macroeconomic implications.

They may be viewed as an object lesson for a dystopian future of debt peonage.

you know we love a good object lesson.

Greece WAS being made an object lesson to convince Portugal, Spain and Italy not to stand up to Eurozone creditors and neoliberal financial planners.

Their disastrous collapse, capital flight, emigration of skilled labor, shrinking GDP and corruption should serve as an object lesson for what China should avoid.

If a taxpayer has reported only 5000 euros income, but has property worth millions of euros, the property should be taken, the payer and his family should be obliged to pay back taxes, and a few criminal convictions should serve as an object lesson to help enforce compliance with the tax code.

Somehow, I manage to sandwich in an object lesson or two with which they might resonate a decade or two later.

«One in Christ Jesus» might well stand as an object lesson on how not to compose an episcopal document, but the happiest outcome is that it be gently steered into a tardy but well - deserved oblivion.

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).

Nay, as they occur in Exodus 9:16, they scarce mean even that, but only that God had kept Pharaoh from dying in the preceding plague, so as to be made the more fully an object lesson to all men.

This is a good object lesson for celebrities.

Rachael Denhollander's victim statement is an object lesson in graceful determination, and we should all watch it, says Emma Fowle More

I suppose what ended up being for me a rather free - for - all melee, instead of a real experience of communion with like - minded and ostensibly like - hearted folks, is sort of an object lesson that ended up characterizing most of the rest of my journey in Emerging church circles.

To make an object lesson, one nation in particular is on notice that it is listed as first for destruction.

So all that killing God did was just an object lesson for Moses.

His life is itself an object lesson in the meaning of that philosophy.

Perhaps the pope is offering an object lesson.

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