Sentence examples for thoughtful lectures from inspiring English sources

And as part of a cruising group for whom smaller is better (meaning cozy dinners with the ship's officers, quiet afternoon teas and thoughtful lectures by foreign correspondents), my aunt has always thought bigger meant thousands of passengers atop thousands of deck chairs watching television and eating three pieces of pizza at once.

His thoughtful lecture on Nov. 3 offered a defense of how and why banks take risks.

In "The Secret Life of the Love Song , a thoughtful lecture that serves as a preface for his new book, "Complete Lyrics," Cave describes his love songs as "gloomy, violent, dark-eyed children" and goes on to compare them to "lifelines thrown into the galaxies by a drowning man".

Nor are our trend-mad scholars so very different; "The Artist Grows Old," a thoughtful and provocative lecture by Kenneth Clark published in 1972, is the only monograph of its kind that I know.

Not "thoughtful, judicious speech".

The John Peel Lecture, BBC6 Music Brian Eno, aka the Professor of Pop, told us that "art is everything you don't have to do" in one of the most thoughtful and illuminating Peel lectures of recent years.

The village continues to struggle with the invisible threat of nuclear contamination, as Norio Kanno, the mayor of Iitate, explained in a thoughtful, life-affirming preconcert lecture, translated by Sharon Nakazato.

Thoughtful, I thought.

Those who know the judge call him a thoughtful jurist who trains new judges, lectures extensively and shows confidence in his legal rulings.

They can both be engaging, but after a few minutes of any topic that they deem unsuitable for what should be a "thoughtful article" about their movie, stern lectures ensue about the course the interview is taking.

Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk A thoughtful American doctor, who gave the 2014 Reith lectures, recounts how many of his patients spend their final hours hooked up to machines, under fluorescent lights, surrounded by strangers.