On Sunday night during the first of the Brit rock pair's two sold-out shows, Gabriel quipped that after a mere three lessons, "No one backstage can tell us apart.
Some may find the play a mere history lesson, and its patchwork quilt structure does, indeed, depend on actors breaking off in order to bring the audience up to speed.
But this is mere cliche if no lessons are then drawn, or if drawn are then forgotten.
Robert Vuksanovic, a local certified flight instructor, jumped in another plane and flew up beside her, coaching from cockpit to cockpit by radio, trying to cram at least a month's worth of pilot training lessons into mere minutes.
This is not mere gloominess but the lessons from recent history: according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, governments typically make tax cuts worth an average of £2.2bn in the year before election; in the year after election, governments make tax rises worth an average of £7.5bn.
Yet Ms. Cowles's defiant originality also demonstrates another lesson about mere flair: it can sparkle plenty, but it has to march in tune with fashion, even if not in lock step.
Humanity is a team, and even though each person would like to be on top, remember that the best style of leadership is by example because the event of one person wisely applying what he or she knows trumps the mere dissemination of a lesson to many any day but both are a helpful influence to others.
And, in another recent study, a team of Canadian researchers found evidence that a mere twenty days of music lessons can lead to better scores on a test of verbal intelligence.
A mere identification of earthquake disasters lessons by academia, specialists, policymakers, various organizations and institutions, or even by survivors, does not mean that these lessons are becoming truly "Lessons Learned".
