Sentence examples for formidable teacher from inspiring English sources

Hunter's other key stage performances included the formidable teacher in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Big Mama in Williams's Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Tonks, a formidable teacher (and a historical figure who trained as a surgeon before becoming an artist), is disappointed with Paul's skilled but emotionally detached sketches of nude women.

But it made clear that Mr. Bloomberg's educational philosophies fall somewhere between those of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the United Federation of Teachers, the city's formidable teacher union.

Born in Queens in 1951, Mr. Tsontakis was influenced as a young man by two formidable teachers, Roger Sessions and Hugo Weisgall.

Even Randi Weingarten, the president of the city's formidable teachers' union, has abandoned her longtime opposition to mayoral control.

With the arrest on embezzlement charges of Esther Elba Gordillo, the head of the formidable teachers' union, Mr Peña has proved them wrong just three months into his presidency.

Born in California to Korean parents, Kim studied with three seminal figures in 20th-century music who were also formidable teachers: Schoenberg, Block and Sessions.

As New York City's formidable teachers' union prepares to endorse a Democratic candidate for mayor as soon as next month, one thing is abundantly clear: Mark Green, the city's public advocate, will almost certainly not be the union's pick.

Spearheaded by a formidable composer, teacher and polemicist, Arnold Schoenberg, it inspired controversy and occasional concert hall riots.

The others were for her work in "Taxi," "Newhart," "Thirtysomething" and "Will & Grace," in which she played Sean Hayes's formidable acting teacher.

There is another woman in their lives: Miss Thorne Lisa Harroww) -- called Thorny behind her back -- a formidable English teacher with a handshake "like a general," as Warren observes.