Sentence examples for something of a course from inspiring English sources

Because "Joanne," with its rock-inspired sound, is being aggressively marketed as Gaga's return-to-roots move, something of a course correction after the perceived excess of her last solo album, 2013's "Artpop".

SINCE last fall the American public has had something of a crash course on Afghanistan.

Mr. Henry's introduction to futures was something of a crash course.

After games, Ausmus said, they would stay up late and talk baseball, something of a graduate course for the rookie.

The opening 10 minutes were something of a crash course in the merits and drawbacks of this system.

At Nankai you can get something of a crash course in Vietnamese ceramics with several dozen vessels, mostly from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

His embrace of faith was a sharp change for a man whose family offered him something of a crash course in comparative religion but no belief to call his own.

R. J. B. Bosworth, a professor of history at the University of Western Australia, announces at the beginning of his "Mussolini" that he intends to steer something of a middle course, agreeing that Mussolini did not govern merely by coercion but enjoyed widespread support, while retaining the fundamentally negative assessment of his time in power.

One afternoon late last week, Mr. Nisanov, a blocky man who was born in Uzbekistan and emigrated to Kew Gardens Hills when he was a child, took a stroll through his neighborhood and delivered something of a short course in Bukharian immigrant culture.

Localization, it seems, requires a hands-on understanding of cultures, tastes, and marketing that puts the Pepsi products worldwide on something of a collision course with customers' increasingly demanding need for unique products, new flavors, and always changing brands and promotions.

Bono, of course, has something of a track record in tech investing already.