Sentence examples for swift lesson from inspiring English sources

On my next stop, I get a swift lesson in what tourism can mean here.

It was a swift lesson in what it's like to cross powerful people, and why stories of harassment are so seldom shared in public.

In fact the play was commercially successful and made its money back - "largely because of Lynne Redgrave and Richard Briars," he gracefully acknowledges - but it was a swift lesson in theatrical realities.

They barracked and I was then booed and spat at in the street outside". In fact the play was commercially successful and made its money back - "largely because of Lynne Redgrave and Richard Briars," he gracefully acknowledges - but it was a swift lesson in theatrical realities.

However, the company is learning a swift lesson in quality over quantity.

After dropping her little bombshell about Joff's death, it was goodbye to the Queen of Thorns, who had enough time for a few swift lessons in love before announcing her departure to Highgarden.

Far from being the swift and gratifying lesson in U.S. dominance that Cheney & Co. predicted, our incursion into Iraq is turning into a spun-out, scary lesson in the dangers of hubris.

Boone's death was a swift and painful lesson to viewers that nobody is safe on the island.

His actual lessons, swift and serious enough, are mostly rudimentary.

It was a lesson in the swift power of recovery.

But like all "ouch" jolts, the impact is really the swift delivery of a life lesson -- one that feels more like a brick to the gut than a feather on your shoulder, and the awareness this particular life brick granted me just may save a couple people from encountering their own surprise deliveries.