Sentence examples for classic exercises from inspiring English sources

There were no classic exercises or set activities; I just showed a video and let the class talk with me controlling the lesson.

The whole business was a classic exercise in propaganda, so blatant as to verge on kitsch.

It was a classic exercise in Gandhian guerrilla politicking in India — and it worked.

The lavish opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London was a classic exercise in national branding, for example.

And they get fabulously rewarded for their efforts.John Byrne's "World Changers" is a classic exercise in hero-worship.

This classic exercise in nimbyism prompted an amusing terrace chant which endures at Dulwich Hamlet home games to this day: "Tuscany!

In a classic exercise of presidential muscle, he bypassed the Senate and installed two conservatives in federal judgeships, positions long denied them by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

That is how traditional art history works, and "Michelangelo's First Painting" feels like a classic exercise in that tradition, equal parts science project, forensic document and romantic quest.

Mr. Calvani, known as a shocking young turk in Europe, has come up with a classic exercise in avant-garde theater that might have been written 50 years ago.

Until last week, that indifference allowed Cameron's Government to remain remarkably unscathed by its attitude toward desperate refugees, which could be characterised as a classic exercise in Nimbyism.

He suggested that the news media had overemphasized his remarks about "personal responsibility" — a venerable theme in the African-American church — while disregarding "the whole other half of the speech," which included a classic exercise in civil-rights oratory.