Sentence examples for harsh taskmaster from inspiring English sources

Mueller was a harsh taskmaster who eschewed expressions of warmth with his staff.

It's one of countless incidents during Robbins's career that showed him to be a harsh taskmaster.

Alejandro turned out to be a harsh taskmaster, requesting take after painful take.

If he was caricatured as a Savonarola for the 1980s, one could argue that the times required a harsh taskmaster.

Beneath the harsh taskmaster was a vulnerable, in many ways deeply innocent man who showed great delicacy and devotion to his friends.

But that's simplistic: there are thousands of emailers who are all-too-conscious - for instance, those who write for that harsh taskmaster, posterity, and weigh every orthographic mark with unwonted care.

They are far from the harsh taskmasters, when it comes to female appearance, that they are routinely made out to be and the idea that they go about rejecting every woman who doesn't resemble a small-eyed baby is very much belied by the number of men who are frankly desperate to get themselves a girlfriend.

She is a harsh and insulting taskmaster, which upsets the glee club.

Indentured to a harsh if not entirely brutal taskmaster, Monsieur Trépagny, they are set to earn their freedom by clearing an area of forest for him (not least so that he can tempt a classy bride from his homeland to join him in the fanciful house he's built).

He was a hard taskmaster.

And Rain is a hard taskmaster.