Sentence examples for eager apprentice from inspiring English sources

The tapes demonstrate how Mr. Francis, who did contribute financial and logistical support to Mr. Defreitas, was an eager apprentice, whose central contribution might have been enthusiasm.

We are not talking about the handing down of particular skills as though the artist were an eager apprentice to some master in a Renaissance studio.

Still, my father's rage and apprehension didn't prevent me from signing up as a marine not many years later, making me an eager apprentice in one of the wars he had so accurately predicted.

Notable contributions to the zestier passages are made by Ms. Nielsen, employing her basso profundo to amusing effect as the sour Verbena; Ms. Bryne, who dithers effectively as the confused Maude; and Mr. Wheelan, cartoonishly bright-eyed and fresh-faced as the eager apprentice torn between a love of the theater and a devotion to religion.

To keep up the pace he used a single shot to the base of the neck from a.25 Walther pistol, being handed fresh magazines by an eager apprentice.

Sitting around the table talking, it was clear that Ms. Rivera is the den mother of the group, the chairwoman emeritus, the beloved Broadway veteran to whom her younger colleagues are eager apprentices.

Bundled into the trunk of a car, he arrives not at some dripping sweatshop but at a spotless workplace, lined with eager apprentices who applaud his entrance as though he had come to conduct them: "They called me Maestro!" he whispers to his wife, creeping back at dawn.

He called for paper and pen from one of the countless earnest, eager apprentices, and began to draw floridly and actively, making swooping charts of the history of cuisine, filled with Venn-diagram-like circles enclosing famous names and long arcs and arrows connecting one significant moment with the next.

Those who mastered corruption under the former autocrat continue to dominate in many areas of public life, and they have been joined by a new batch of eager young apprentices.

Until the recession hit, Mr. Murray insisted, his blue-collar friends were eager to hire apprentices at good wages but struggled to find anyone willing to do the work.

Though they did not know one another before the program and were not familiar with conceptual art, the apprentices were eager to plunge in.