The winners turned out to be a team of journeymen Greeks, well schooled by a German drillmaster. |
Bragg was an imaginative strategist and an effective drillmaster and organizer, but he was also a weak tactician and a martinet who was disliked by a number of his principal subordinates. |
On the football field, he was a drillmaster and master psychologist. |
He was a drillmaster but the work paid off as the Americans won four of five games here, losing only to Canada after they had already made the medal round. |
He was the drillmaster of the American Revolution, but he was also its greatest student of the human mind and heart. |
Muti, who is sixty-nine, and who long presided over La Scala, in Milan, is no metronomic drillmaster. |