Nor did he lunge at supposedly transformative opportunities that were pressed upon him — a lesson he learned from a four-year war with Blockbuster that began in 2004, when Blockbuster, then the dominant and much larger DVD distributor, tried and failed to crush its upstart competitor.
The wickets of Ramdin and Edwards, with the close nearly upon us, were a lesson in fine swing bowling.
When they inflict a little barroom justice on a would-be robber, tricking him into revealing which hand he favors so they can inflict a lesson upon it, you're watching actors with years of confidence in their craft.
The philosophy that I built Seven Bar Foundation and Empowered by You upon is based on a lesson I learned from Maimonides, a philosopher from the middle ages.
If this seems steep, remember: along with your purchase, Berluti includes a tin of complimentary shoe polish and, upon request, a DVD called "A Lesson in Shoe Shining".
"Three Shades of Blues: Roots," the first in a three-night series of Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts at the Rose Theater tracing the blues from its prehistory to the present, wasn't really a lesson enacted upon the audience.
But we all must do it sometime in our lives for one reason or another, and the key is to do it when you want to, not when it is forced upon you, and that is a lesson my father modeled for me.
The view, though, is but one of many perks that come with living in the historic, idiosyncratic and currently en vogue Slopes — a lesson often learned upon arrival.
Planning to teach him a lesson, they sprung upon him before announcing that he was about to be decapitated.
