At a time when everyone understands that prohibition is not working, and politicians have reached a total impasse in what they are prepared to do, the sad pointlessness of Eva Rausing's death is impossible to use as any sort of lesson.
The children's mother, Jane Williams, said she brought them to see Mr. Cheney as "a sort of civics lesson".
The novel's title is a sly misdirection and perhaps, as such, a sort of Socratic lesson in the practice of reading it.
Also interwoven, for historical context, is a biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the mono-ethnic Turkish republic which replaced the multi-ethnic Ottoman world.Given that his book is presented as a sort of history lesson, Mr de Bernières will be challenged on his facts.
But around the edges of his garden, as a sort of object lesson, he has posted the bright red signs with a white skull and crossbones that can be seen alongside fields and streams all around Cambodia: "Danger!! Mines!!" That was just the beginning.
Mr. Camp and Mr. Woodruff have reduced that chapter to a quick sort of lesson-plan survey, hitting the key points, which means you lose much of the inbred interiority of the Underground Man's voice.
Instilling that sort of lesson was a prime motivation for James Gallagher, a former owner of an executive outplacement consulting firm and a previous bank director, who lives 12 minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge.
For a child, for instance, a food drive offers all sorts of lessons.
Brazen as he was, he was trying to teach us a lesson — a sort of Bode-sattva of the hill.
But the poetry of "The Piano Lesson" — a sort of brilliant passivity, surrendering to an ineffable logic of paint and color — falls entirely outside Picasso's range.
