taskmaster

Example Sentences

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With rare exceptions, bosses typically stand in as the villains in workplace movies and are often portrayed as manipulative, hard-driving taskmasters.

From The Wall Street Journal

That facade of an assertive taskmaster dissolved on a recent afternoon when Turner sat in his office to discuss his taunts of King and his path forward.

From New York Times

Fleck and women’s basketball coach Lindsay Whalen are all young coaches born in the early 1980s who balance being taskmasters with relationship-based approaches to teaching.

From Washington Post

From the outset, Prince was an exceptional multi-instrumentalist, capable of recording entire albums himself, and a hard taskmaster.

From Salon

In the studio, she was a taskmaster, pushing herself and her collaborators until they captured the exact sound she heard in her head — not easy for a Black female musician of her time.

From New York Times