Sentences with phrase «than a history lesson»

And it will be much more than a history lesson.

That Jackie feels deeply personal and lacks that perfunctory sheen of «historical importance» — that it is a character study rather than a history lesson — speaks to Larraín's humanist approach to the material.

But First They Killed My Father works better as a mood piece — an accomplished, if overly long mood piece — than a history lesson.

He gets a lot of reign to show swagger and confidence that makes Marshall more of a dynamic watch than a history lesson.

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

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So I started developing the formula: Cycling clinics, Italian lessons, cooking lessons, embracing the history and culture... really turning a cycling tour into more than just a bike ride.

Rather than get into a history lesson right now, let's move on to these gluten - free berry muffins made with coconut flour.

Ken it's a good point however, we criticise other fans for history lessons for example UTD and Liverpool have won more top trophies than we have.

And that the lessons of history can sometimes turn out to be nothing more than massive coincidences.

Wenger is as usual treating players poorly and inconsistent e.g Lacca never plays 90 mins Xhaka plays every game every minute I know who I think is better For me I can not think of another midfielder who we bought worse than Xhaka We have not fixed the problems we have (as always) hoodwinked) the fans We have not spent a penny in the last two windows we've spent what been generated I have not and then I'll not spend a penny on the club till that awful manager is gone (don't give me history lessons about how good he is / was) It may be the board but until wenger has gone we won't know.

He posted the best win percentage in Leeds history, managed the most games (740, over 300 more than Wilkinson in second), and... wait a second... you don't need a Don Revie history lesson.

Since that series on the 2008 online challenges is taking a just a bit longer than planned to pull together, let's whet your appetites with a little history lesson.

But was there a more cringingly amusing moment than when yoof commentator - type Jolyon Rubenstein was derided by Alan Johnson, Michael Portillo and given a history lesson by Brillo?

This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled «The Prince».

The debate about including the history and philosophy of science in science lessons remains unresolved in most countries, even in France which is now more of a leader in the interactive science movement than in philosophy.

Look, we all have relationship histories with varying amounts of residual damage and I am more than happy to share our heartbreak and lessons learned, but let's hold off on that until we're officially in a relationship.

It becomes exhaustively tiresome rather than dramatically fulfilling, as spectacle, costumes, wigs and an inaccurate history lesson rules the day.

It's a fascinating history lesson about one of the few incidences where the language of advertising and selling was utilised to achieve a grander goal than the promotion of soft drinks.

Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a history lesson, decorated in nostalgia, telling the story of people who were more like us than we ever realized.

Though the film begins with a snappy history lesson about the circumstances that led to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, this thumbnail history just provides the context for an audacious, stranger - than - fiction CIA mission to extract six American hostages from their tenuous hidey - hole in the Canadian ambassador's home.

It helps that Camalier and his producing partner Stephen Badger are after more here than just a dry lesson in musical history.

Free State of Jones is well - crafted and tells a worthwhile story, but makes for a better history lesson than moviegoing experience.

But because Nichols avoids stirring speechmaking or teary confrontations, Mildred and Richard feel all the more real, rather than like characters in a sepia - toned history lesson.

The payoff the film needs to resonate as more than a well - produced history lesson never materializes, and it leaves shrugging its shoulders at the elusive nature of peace.

Diego Luna's «Cesar Chavez» bears some weight courtesy of its true roots, but the abundance of information and lack of heart makes it feel more like a history lesson rather than a dynamic cinematic experience.

On the one hand, the historical stuff is fascinating (and is good enough to wish that Egoyan had been able to secure funding to film an entire movie like that), but the sequences featuring Raffi explaining the conflict to Plummer's character feels more like a history lesson than anything else.

«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.»

But the lesson of history, back to textbooks more than a century ago and beyond, is that classroom teachers shape the effects of each new classroom technology.

I have learned more life lessons than actual history, and I am okay with that.

Though they did not quite meet the goal, the Nike Breaking2 got closer than anyone in history (2:00:25) and learned valuable lessons along the way.

Of more than 20 links in the history lesson, five were not working on a recent day.

A Note - Taking Template: Rather than having students complete their iceberg as one class lesson or homework assignment, you can have students complete the diagrams in a more continuous way as you study a period in history.

About Facing History and Ourselves Cleveland Since the Cleveland office was established in 1999, Facing History has provided more than 2,266 educators with programs and resources that connect the study of history to lessons about tolerance, respect, and civic participationHistory and Ourselves Cleveland Since the Cleveland office was established in 1999, Facing History has provided more than 2,266 educators with programs and resources that connect the study of history to lessons about tolerance, respect, and civic participationHistory has provided more than 2,266 educators with programs and resources that connect the study of history to lessons about tolerance, respect, and civic participationhistory to lessons about tolerance, respect, and civic participation today.

As I've emphasized nearly every week since mid-2014 (when we completed the awkward transition from our pre-2009 methods to our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles — see A Better Lesson Than «This Time is Different» and Voting Machine, Weighing Machine for the full narrative), the central lesson of market cycles across history, and even the most recent full cycle since 2007, is that the behavior of market internals is central to distinguishing an overvalued market that collapses from an overvalued market that continues to adLesson Than «This Time is Different» and Voting Machine, Weighing Machine for the full narrative), the central lesson of market cycles across history, and even the most recent full cycle since 2007, is that the behavior of market internals is central to distinguishing an overvalued market that collapses from an overvalued market that continues to adlesson of market cycles across history, and even the most recent full cycle since 2007, is that the behavior of market internals is central to distinguishing an overvalued market that collapses from an overvalued market that continues to advance.

In summer, take a dip in nearby swimming holes, follow the switchbacked hiking trail to Chilnualna Falls (best in spring), get a history lesson at Pioneer Yosemite History Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly hugehistory lesson at Pioneer Yosemite History Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly hugeHistory Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly huge) tree.

In summer, take a dip in nearby swimming holes, follow the switchbacked hiking trail to Chilnualna Falls (best in spring), get a history lesson at Pioneer Yosemite History Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly huge)history lesson at Pioneer Yosemite History Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly huge)History Center (and take a horse - drawn carriage ride), and visit the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, protecting more than 500 of these spectacular (and spectacularly huge) trees.

Newer gamers might not recognize the Kid Icarus pedigree like those of us who are older than dirt, so here's your history lesson.

Less likely to be fixed any time soon are the German and Soviet singleplayer «campaigns», which amount to nothing more than multiplayer matches with bots, connected by brief, animated history lessons.

While some games provide collectable items for nothing more than for trophies and achievements, Valiant Hearts» collectibles are all related to World War I memorabilia, and the game is more than happy to give players a history lesson.

I'd argue that its introduction of using the joysticks to perform more moves than you had buttons was pure innovation that makes Karate Champ more than just a history lesson.

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.

For a start, how about teaching art history in art lessons from the point of view of the artist, tell them Francis Bacon hung about with the Krays, or that Caravaggio murdered someone, let them know that the stuff about the vanishing point and composition are tools for conveying aspects of life, death, fear, sex - god forbid, humour - and those po faced dullards with posh voices that stand in front of great works pointing at background views of Tuscany are no more to do with painting pictures than I am an art historian.

On no more than the basis that «climate change is occurring», moral philosophers tell us what is right, social historians invent lessons from history to make climate criminals in the present, science historians invent conspiracy theorists, and psychologists tell us how to apply distress to change public opinion, and why debate is just too risky to trust to the public.

Herbert Smith would do well to the learn the lessons of the past — but then this is a firm that has more often seemed bound by history than able to seek instruction from it.

With a history that spans less than 15 years, you'd think the lessons of previously failed web - businesses would be painfully familiar.

Functional resumes work best for people with gaps in their employment history, focusing more on the skills, functions, lessons, and learning rather than the specifics of their work experience.

While standard knowledge of music (notes, instruments and music history) are important, what is more important than these is to be able to impart music lessons and develop students» interest in music as a subject.

Please spare me the religious claptrap, the lessons of ethnic histories, and the holier than thou pronouncements of the alleged real meaning of this time of year.

If I was to suggest to a teacher that the history lesson they were planning was no different than preparing a sales presentation to sell students, I would no doubt be told that I am wrong and that teaching is different from selling.