Sentence examples for brutal lessons from inspiring English sources

That's been the single biggest learning experience in my life, broken into a number of minute (and occasionally brutal) lessons".

After a perilous start, the enterprise takes off, but not before the four learn some brutal lessons in debt collection.

And here he learns the cruellest, most brutal lessons of survival, how to quash all sense of pity and compassion.

Those brutal lessons (and lawsuits) were burned permanently into Apple's cultural memory; when it came time for a portable mp3 player, the iPod was designed and priced to be relatively accessible, and the constant vigilance of product upgrading gave the iPod and its many-sized children genuine market control.

The "from the bottom up" organization learned some brutal lessons about the difference between sloganeering and actual governing.

In fact, the brutal lessons of Afghanistan -- not Obama's feckless sanctions and finger waiving -- are precisely what are keeping Mr. Putin from a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine.

Good manners could not disguise the brutal lesson being taught.

It was a brutal lesson in neighbourhood geopolitics.

Not very smart, but I learned a brutal lesson that has stayed with me.

Harburg originally had imagined dealing him a far more brutal lesson.

Every time a tornado alights it teaches a brutal lesson in the vagaries of chance.