The film also makes room for the occasional lecture, as when Jack complains about what he calls "the Japanese way - shut up and take it."

Now he wants the quiet life, time to reflect and read the classics, an occasional lecture to impart the wisdom of elder statesmanship.

Their less than stellar performance gets them the occasional lecture from their Sensei.

Today an occasional lecture on the subject of psychical research or the paranormal has been added.

This did not prevent him from giving the occasional lecture at Oxford University.

He subsidised his meagre income by giving the occasional lecture on the Endurance expedition.

Apart from the occasional public lecture, higher education has too often been remote from the local communities in which we are based.

She consulted with those who did, wrote books and articles about subjects on which she'd been hailed an expert, and delivered the occasional lecture.

As such he is often interviewed and offered freelance writing and the occasional lecture.

And there is the occasional lecture on, say, Shakespeare, or the role of the press in a democracy, paid for by council grants.