Sentence examples for little lectures from inspiring English sources

Half of Westminster will be there, singing along to Tim Minchin songs and listening to little lectures on mathematics.

At their worst they are pompous little lectures that let us know we need educating to grasp the full complexity of what we are about to see.

As Jack tries to make sense of these portents, he finds time to give us little lectures on how "distributed intelligence" can arise in networks of artificial agents.

The narrator sets himself up as our guide, offering little lectures on the scenery and exploring the innermost thoughts of the characters, as if both were of equal interest and transparency.

He has a nice turn with words: at a women's gym he observes how "a matron with a face like an aubergine stuffed with rice sat on guard at the door".Perhaps for balance, Mr Miles supplies worthy little lectures on the much bleaker side of the city and its regime; these sometimes seem a mite forced.

Academic tutors are given little lectures on how they mustn't ever let their eyes drop below their students' collarbones, while the 20-year-old woman who faces her, let's say, 30-year-old tutor in a short skirt, plunging neckline, and no underwear (it has happened, and not infrequently) is an innocent victim who will yell the place down if his glance flickers.

He gave her a little lecture on the fundamentals of deportment.

She said, "Give me your phone!" I excused myself from Erik for a second to give her a little lecture.

When I suggested that Assad may not have deserved all that attention, Kerry gave me a little lecture.

I'm given a little lecture on the information before I'm allowed to see my results.

Every once in a while I get a little lecture on the English language from a reviewer.