Sentence examples for puller of from inspiring English sources

Industrials think Mediobanca is still a useful puller of strings.

But more than anything he was known as a rimorchione, an able and enthusiastic puller of the girls.

Sandy was the sly onlooker and chief teller of the tale, as well as the puller of the strings.

One might have observed McConaughey's "journey" over recent years from billowing shirt rom-com knicker-loosener through to very serious revered Oscar-nominated puller of earnest faces.

The film's handling of Jaggers (Robbie Coltrane), Pip's dispassionate lawyer and a puller of many plot strings, is perfunctory, despite Mr. Coltrane's expansive performance.

Robert S. Strauss, the former Democratic Party chairman who is in Mr. Barbour's league as a party stalwart and puller of strings, said he once thought of running for the Senate from Texas but concluded he would be clobbered.

Bolton, however, lacked a string-puller of the calibre of Israeli international Eyal Berkovic.

Smiling wryly about playing with the gallery-magnet Woods and the women-magnet Scott, Ogilvy joked, "It's an ideal group to play with — the best golfer of all time and the best gallery-puller of all time".

Robbie, the son of the most famous sleigh-puller of them all, has just arrived at the North Pole to take his place on Santa's team, but he runs into problems.

Thus Exeter stages a real crowd-puller of a chase, worth £29,000 to the winner, which pits last year's Cheltenham Festival winner Azertyuiop against the redoubtable Edredon Bleu, from the Henrietta Knight Best Mate stable, with added glitter from the Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman-owned Seebald.

ReprintsA hugely expansive figure, tall and beefy, Mr Hombach is a man of many talents: election campaigner, author of a book giving economic substance to Mr Schröder's chatter of a "new middle" in politics, and, perhaps above all, a master-puller of countless strings.