Sentence examples for swift lessons from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Unlike reactions to previous school shootings, those at Santana were swift and smooth, in large measure because of lessons learned by educators and law enforcement agencies since the Columbine killings near Littleton, Colo., in 1999.

Halfway around the world, he was learning hard lessons after taking charge of his first Swift boat, PCF-44, in early December 1968.

By Saturday depositors were bombarding its website and starting to queue at its branches.The government's (likely) swift action suggests that it has learned some important lessons from the failure of Northern Rock.

And then there is the lesson that those suffering domestic abuse need swift and effective support.