Sentences with phrase «object lessons in»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

Fogg dam is an object lesson in how not to develop northern Australia.

And while Watford were taking advantage of Arsenal's mental unpreparedness, Chelsea were grinding out a draw up at Anfield, an object lesson in «job done.»

Brexit secretary David Davis» Kafkaesque appearance in front of a Commons select committee today provided an object lesson in how that process works.

For their part, many Tory MPs see the saga as an object lesson in Liberal Democrat duplicity - and one that has increased their instinctive distrust of their coalition partners.

The solar system, we have come to see, is a dynamic marvel, and in their myriad and fluid forms, Saturn's rings are an object lesson in the universality, scalability and endless complexity of gravity.

But just as a straight highway can prove to be a veritable cloverleaf of intersecting ecosystems, the story of American leprosy is more convoluted than it seems — an object lesson in the complexity of the natural world.

Fogg dam is an object lesson in how not to develop northern Australia.

The meeting's attendees were treated at the outset to a round of inspiration from David Shoemaker, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Cambridge, who walked them through the observatory's history as an object lesson in how to succeed with large - scale science.

Maybe it was meant as an object lesson in the mysteries of the Eucharist («Take, eat.

Instead they have produced an object lesson in the elusive alchemy that is creating great art.

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.»

Rather, it's an object lesson in looking out for number one.

All too frequently, Admission serves as an object lesson in the risks of having a non-comic writer (Karen Croner, whose other screenplay to date was the cancer drama One True Thing) adapt a non-comic novel (by Jean Hanff Korelitz), and handing the result to a director, Paul Weitz, whose last comedy was Little Fockers.

Writer / director J. C. Chandor (whose first feature, Margin Call, was among the best films of 2011) offers an object lesson in the virtue of understatement in this one - character drama featuring Robert Redford.

Next Goal Wins — The power of hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and an object lesson in what it really means to be a winner in life.

Movies set in established cinematic worlds can still provide their own pleasures — and summer 2016 saw the release of a sequel that could serve as an object lesson in how to make a good one.

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

Writing for Education Week, Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute called the writing «ripped from the talking points of Common Core enthusiasts» and «an object lesson in the vapid triumphalism of Common Core boosters.

New York City Housing Authority Archives (LaGuardia Community College), Box # 0063C7 Folder # 11; Folder Title: R & D: RACE & COLOR OF TENANTS — STATISTICAL SHEETS OF NUMBER OF FAMILIES W / RE: TO RACIAL COMPOSITION - FEDERAL, CITY, STATE BOOKLET ON OBJECT LESSON IN RACE RELATION; APPLICATION.

The drivetrain is certainly an impressive technological achievement and an object lesson in systems integration, but it lacks the emotional appeal of a soulful, high - revving engine and that will count against it among certain traditional sports car buyers.

For an object lesson in time travel, grab the key to the red 1991 E30 M3.

In Corsa (race) mode, the steering action speeds up dramatically, tip - in is an object lesson in preemptive obedience, torque vectoring clearly favors the rear wheels, and the dampers keep the body almost level even under hard braking and through maximum - g corners.

As a design, it was an object lesson in economy of purpose.

An object lesson in how to make a mess of a perfectly decent looking car.

Compliments of the grip provided by the 225 / 55 - series tyres and a nice, controlled fluidity as it charges from corner to corner, the Hyundai is an object lesson in how to suspension - tune a mid-size SUV.

Our manual - transmission test car was an object lesson in how far locally built and designed cars progressed over a time span of almost 70 years.

The Accord's interior is an object lesson in balanced design, and the well - shaped front seats are a good example: enough side support for those curvy - road runs, with enough width for those of us who are broad of beam.

And years later, John Irving's The World According to Garp was an object lesson in absolutely stuffing a book to bursting — with characters, with ideas, with absurdity — and yet making it all ring true.

The entire episode is an object lesson in IP and copyright among writers who don't understand the tools and technologies they use — and whose sense of self - entitlement (or greed) runs roughshod over the social and cultural principles of their own medium: books.

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

The Sad Sweet Sixteen An Object Lesson in True Caring Sixteen sad, sweet cats were waiting for help next to their now - vacant house.

Its gorgeously lush visuals are quite simply among the best ever seen in a game, offering an object lesson in how stylisation has the power to trump photorealism even in the 4K age.

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.

Speaking of the past recaptured, text art has been around before, to the point that even photographs can be an object lesson in «sight reading.»

In a bold stroke, the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Museum of Art (MOAFL) in Ft. Lauderdale presents an object lesson in how the influence of a Danish artist, who worked in the latter half of the 19th century, can still be seen in the work of one of the more successful artists of the second half of the 20th and into the 21st.

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

Although, a very simple building, displaying a flat facade to the road, the Registry is an object lesson in the harmonious use of materials (a smooth faced ashlar, a rough sandstone and grey - green slate), and the careful composition and subtle arrangement of the different elements to produce an eye - catching yet superbly refined building.