As someone who from time to time has made modest efforts to write the kind of journalism that Lewis has mastered, and who has often learned at first hand just how hard it is to find a single person to tell a story half as complex as this one, that fact still seems startling to me.
Trudging through "Creed" in reading glasses and a tilted pork pie hat, Stallone infuses his character with an aura of wisdom, the kind exuded by a man who has often learned things the hard way.
As every cyclist knows (and has often learnt the hard way) the better a bike fits, the easier it is to ride.
Collectors of Anderson's Horn Island watercolors -- most done on typing paper -- have often learned a story to go along with their acquisition.
"SEN students have often learned helplessness and passivity because, consciously or not, we as practitioners exert a huge amount of control and [going outdoors] forces us to relinquish that," he explains.
The new map, a companion to the weekend service change guide called the Weekender, which was unveiled in September, explains mysteries that late-night subway riders until now have often learned by reading the sometimes haphazardly posted signage, or consulting fellow, sometimes inebriated, passengers.
However, during a lifetime of reading, I have also realized two things: I've often learned something about my own life through reading a novel or a biography, but I've far more often learned something about someone else's life through reading, sometimes even in the same books.
Gender activists have often learned the need to open discussions indirectly, often through eliciting what is seen as a problem in the locale or by the target group, and to use these as a way in to discussions.
TBAs have often learned to assist births by apprenticeship to more experienced TBAs, often observing local traditions and customs, and may provide other postnatal services to women including caregiving and domestic chores.
Wittgenstein once wrote in one of his notebooks that "I have often learnt a lesson from a silly American film".
While humankind may fear violence, human beings have often learnt to live with it.
