Sentence examples for kindly master from inspiring English sources
Chekhov prepares for the ending by depicting the household of the kindly master as a faintly sinister place.
Since his book was published, Mr. Wiencek has been more direct in his claims, asserting that his work "systematically demolishes" Ms. Gordon-Reed's portrayal of Jefferson as "a kindly master to black slaves".
Somewhere in "The Persian Boy," when the young Bagoas is being schooled at Susa in the arts of the courtesan, the kindly master who is preparing him for service to the King reminds him of a crucial rule of life at court: "Never be importunate, never, never".
In the past, possibly reflecting the backgrounds or aspirations of the senior staff, viewers paying the licence fee were most likely to get stories set in fee-paying schools, while it was commercial TV that admitted poorer pupils in Please, Sir! (LWT, 1968-72), with John Alderton as the clueless but kindly master to a class of working-class kids.
Sadists, even psychopaths, who could not cope with their right of total dominance over another human being, might appear anywhere, as might kindly masters.
The slaves on the South Carolina plantation that is the principal setting for the film's story are "faithful souls," eager to help their kindly masters.
We know that the sleek, well-groomed animal Kashtanka has become under the care of the kindly circus master will soon again be a bag of bones, beaten by the carpenter and tortured by the son.
I knew nothing but its name, which conjured up some kind of Être et Avoir – possibly Nicola Philibert's take on a rustic French orphanage, complete with sums, spelling and kindly, bespectacled house masters.
So now, will those with the master tapes kindly re-release the original album?
I've now had the pleasure of reading the senior thesis Ms. Kagan wrote at Princeton, under the kindly, avuncular eye of the master American historian Sean Wilentz.
He disliked his schooldays, although he was a useful rugby player and remembered with deep gratitude "Joe" Craddock, a master who proved kindly under his gruff exterior, and who chivvied the boys in his German class to such effect that Judt still commanded the language more than 40 years on.
