martinet

1 Some are martinets; some allow players as much leeway as possible.

2 Gone are the days of John McGraw, Leo Durocher, Gene Mauch and Billy Martin, martinets who ran their fiefdoms largely by guts.

3 He had borne up with difficulty under the public gaze; he gave way, martinet as he was, the moment he was alone.

4 His father, a martinet but also a stabilizing influence, died when Hernandez was in college.

5 Purge school boards of the sort of bluenose martinet who thinks you should teach the Holocaust — the Holocaust! — without painful words and images.

6 But must the God that is in a building’s details be a martinet?

7 As played by Forest Whitaker, Wills is a canny veteran trainer, part Zen master, part martinet, who has forgotten more about boxing than most people will ever know.

8 He’s tough-minded, but no martinet, and his sense of empathy prompts him to take a chance with Teller’s character, Brendan McDonough.

9 Roberts, a flinty, fastidious martinet with a hardscrabble background and a knack for making himself indispensable to powerful men, befriended Jones and took up the cause.

10 His father was a gentlemanly martinet; dull, sour, well-informed, and of great ambition as to externals.

11 On the home front, Jaime is a macho martinet who subjects his son to a series of cruel and capricious humiliations, hoping to make a man out of him.

12 A martinet, he is immensely unpopular among Thais.

13 Elina Löwensohn plays the senior nurse and tour group leader, something of a martinet who disapproves of any impious or egotistical behaviour.

14 My husband is a sleep martinet, well up on the research regarding sleep and children’s health and also deeply protective of our evenings.

15 As are the old-fashioned words — like “martinet,” “popinjay” and “annealed” — that Galloway sprinkles through the text, the way Leigh strewed the beloved posies from her various country estates.

16 As a general, Lot seems to have been a martinet and something of a coward.

17 Though not dominated by martinets like my teacher, early mathematics education is generally poor.

18 No martinet in the system could have put as much spit-and-polish into a surface as those robots had.

19 Hiring competent supervisors rather than martinets or those with massive egos who know nothing of what the employees under them do.

20 MacArthur himself, a martinet and a staunch Republican, was torn between his New Dealers and the conservatives.

1 训练严格的

Prussian

2 严格

precise strictly severely strait narrowly precision severity starch austerity rigidity astringency exactitude stringency rigour