Sentence examples for odd lesson from inspiring English sources

Say what you like about Tuscany but it can teach us Brits the odd lesson in humility and prioritising.

This strategy may be good enough for the odd lesson, but not for the huge number of classes now being covered by agency staff, supervisors and non-specialists.

This is perhaps an odd lesson to draw from the life of George Sand, but it would be more interesting if her intellectual and political milieu were more fully presented.

Similarly, pupils at a London school were last week confronted by a mysterious new teacher, accompanied only by a small cadre of journalists and photographers.The new teacher was Damian Green, the shadow education secretary, who spent three days at a state school, supervising the playgrounds, inspecting uniforms, and even teaching the odd lesson.

A single dead rubber victory against a weakened team can hardly be cause for anything other than mild consolation but at least under Ashley Giles there has been a sense of this England one-day team learning the odd lesson along the way.

One of the odd lessons that Scorsese offers, in the person of Langford, who (in a deeply moving moment of directorial self-portraiture) is alone in his pristine apartment watching a tape of Sam Fuller's "Pickup on South Street," is that nobody is.

The past year has offered an odd object lesson in historical redundancy.

The odd yoga lesson or walk from the Tube wasn't going to cut it.

After 18 months working at the former Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Nahm, he will spend this summer trying to build up a private catering business while teaching the odd cookery lesson.

"I'm the government chief whip," Gove shouts back in a flat tone which suggests he might need the odd Rada lesson if he is to tread the boards.

What could have looked merely odd became a lesson in expressiveness.