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How to use taskmaster in a sentence

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It is often the hard taskmaster who alone succeeds in instilling mistrust of primrose paths.
He is said by colleagues to be a hard taskmaster who does not tolerate failure.
Martin, the course director, is something of a harsh taskmaster when he wants to be.
He seemed a hard taskmaster, but he did it all for what he saw to be the ultimate good.
Soden has been portrayed in some quarters as a hard taskmaster who doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Generations of children in the town have grown up knowing her as a hard taskmaster in her role as a swimming instructor.
Not only is it a hard taskmaster, insatiable in the demands it makes on its followers, it often saves the best till last.
He was my first guru and was a hard taskmaster, adamant about me getting the basics of my training in Carnatic music right.
She was then employed by Howard, a changeable character, easygoing one day, an unforgiving taskmaster the next.
Taylor considers himself to be something of a hard taskmaster but he has been delighted with the response of his players.
Gilbert is a hard taskmaster, but Murray certainly knew that before they got together.
Robbins's disciplinarianism won him a reputation as a harsh and cruel taskmaster.
Mars is a hard-driving taskmaster, so you've probably been overdoing things again recently.
I'm a hard taskmaster and there is still room for improvement.
Having come face-to-face with the king of political interviews on his other show, University Challenge, she has nothing but praise for the hard taskmaster.
Like Jobs, Amazon's boss is a demanding taskmaster and micromanager who does not suffer fools gladly.
Faced with such hard times, people yearned for some empathy and warmth from their taskmaster but Mr Kubilius remained aloof.
I have no problem with your being a tough taskmaster, Mr. Chair, but we need our five minutes.
In the 50s, I had an excellent taskmaster in the field of the right approach: my boss Maria Aab.
Might it have drawn a lesson from the experiences of its European mentor and taskmaster?
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Examples from Classical Literature
He fled from a taskmaster, not from one who was in any just sense a guardian.
The taskmaster does not now interfere with him as he was wont to do when he first arrived.
What he needed was a taskmaster like you to call him to terms now and then.
But as soon as the taskmaster has departed, even a pretence of work ceases.
We may look upon Him as a taskmaster, or we may look upon Him as a righteous Father.
All that the taskmaster cared for was the completion of the daily tale.
And man, subservient to interests he has persuaded himself are greater than his own, makes himself a slave to his taskmaster.
And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
So, even while he was their griping taskmaster and never gave them a good word, he had written their names down in his will.
But the galley-slave of the Commune will only see the taskmaster.
Boys are easily mastered by a taskmaster who is master of her task.
A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.
Life, for most of us, is not so much a hard as an exacting taskmaster.
Taskmaster General Greg Davies clearly relishes turning the thumbscrews on the younger comics who need the publicity, but you wonder why old school Frank Skinner is there.
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