"lesson" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But it's the sad poetry of the title character's downfall, not the stern lessons in right rulership it may impart, that gives the play its haunting beauty.
- This weary mess isn't all loss; any regiment of boots needs a stern lesson in the meaning of nine-oh-eight-oh, as we both know.
- Moderation had to be learned ere long by the discipline of more than one stern lesson.
- It's a rather stern lesson about financial prudence, but there is a reason this tale has survived through the ages - and still preoccupies many researchers who study the eccentricities of human economic behavior.
- One of them still does, its perfect vacant tilth preaching a stern lesson about timeliness.
- Episodes may unfold within a moral vacuum, yet the portrayal of European genocides carries stern and persuasive lessons.
- It was necessary to teach the churl a stern lesson, and to discourage all others of like mind.
- Better a stern lesson, a red rubber ball to stifle them, the sort of anonymous end that best generated ominous rumors, even the frozen river bent to an educational purpose.
- A century of unspeakable tyranny ere they had gained their freedom had taught them the stern lesson of submitting to the inevitable.
- The stern lesson of the day had done its work; her worldliness was gone.
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