Sentence examples for cruel lessons from inspiring English sources

Contemptuously awarded a farthing in damages, ostracized, and soon bankrupt, Whistler learned cruel lessons about the city that he had sought to enchant.

But thou, sweet hot impetuous Wench Hast cull'd cruel lessons from the French; No vast Atlantick could produce Those Tydes thou seek'st of am'rous Juice.Answer: Andrew Marvell.

Their treatment and that of my mother have been cruel lessons about the inadequacy of the medical system to provide holistic care for the elderly.

Stevenson, a 21-year-old Californian, sampled life's cruel lessons in 1999 during a startling run to the Wimbledon semifinals as a qualifier.

The single currency was conceived as a force against history's cruel lessons, a financial counterweight to distinctions and divisions that placed narrow identity and self-interest ahead of the broader European vision.

"I do not want Australians to learn just how important a strong economy is to each of them by having to endure the cruel lessons of a weaker economy under Labor," Morrison said.

But it's a cruel lesson in life and baseball.

Poor Peanut learns a cruel lesson, not an untrue one, but it stings nonetheless.

It was a cruel lesson, but perhaps a vital one for the Jets and for Smith.

The Marlins, who won on opening day before losing a franchise record eight straight, are learning that cruel lesson.

For Motion it was the defining incident of his life, a cruel lesson in bad luck and "the only reliable law of life: its randomness".