Sentence examples for he was a hard taskmaster from inspiring English sources

He was a hard taskmaster.

If your excellent obituary (16 July) gave the impression that he was a hard taskmaster, I can assure you that we always found him, without ever compromising his rigorous standards, the most good-humoured, trusting and well-loved conductor.

As it turned out, he saved many thousands.In Dayton and everywhere else he was a hard taskmaster, but this was no more than he demanded of himself: shuttling to and fro between continents, staying up sleepless to read a book or to watch "There's Something About Mary" for the fifth time.

Nonetheless, he was a hard taskmaster, insisting that his students be well grounded in the classics-Weber, Durkheim, Freud, and Marx, as well as Kroeber, Kardiner, Erik Erikson, and Piaget, carrying forward the intensity and scope of intellectual exploration fostered at his alma mater in Chicago.

She said: "My God, I heard Polanski was a hard taskmaster but he's not even giving the prop man a lunch break".

Sparks once said that Moroder was a hard taskmaster; they would give him 20 songs and he would reject 19 of them and then said he liked only the middle eight of the 20th.

According to Citron, Levin was a hard taskmaster who would work all hours.

The director, William Wyler, was a hard taskmaster, and Olivier learned to remove what Billington described as "the carapace of theatricality" to which he was prone, replacing it with "a palpable reality".

He has a reputation for being a hard taskmaster, and not handing out compliments lightly, but he was full of praise for Greene's achievement in South Korea.

He is also said to be a hard taskmaster - someone who won't tolerate imperfections (I watched him spend 20 minutes practising his signature before deciding which pen he was going to use for a book signing) - but is equally known to pay his staff extremely well.

"You never know what will happen but Van Gaal is going to be a hard taskmaster because that's the way he is – and the way he gets the best out of his players.