(n.) A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.
Example Sentences:
(1) London-born, his accent already has a touch of that strange, trans-continental maestro-speak that Simon Rattle perfected a few years ago.
(2) Even a fully qualified "barista maestro" responsible for training junior baristas at a London branch of Costa Coffee earns a maximum of £7.15 per hour (plus some bonuses and incentives), compared with the £8.55 estimated by the Greater London Authority as a living wage (or £7.45 elsewhere).
(3) Jorge, the island's plumber, fado singer and domino maestro explains the insular philosophy to tourism.
(4) For the first time in a generation, there's hardly a weak link in any of the relationships between the maestros and their orchestras: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and now Andris Nelsons; the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits; the Hallé with Mark Elder; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko; the Northern Sinfonia with Thomas Zehetmair.
(5) Just as we finished the session, the Maestro called me over.
(6) Thirty minutes with the maestro will not be 29 minutes or 31 minutes.
(7) Despite his gaffe-prone nature and warnings to American travelers to stay away from planes , Biden is, by many accounts, a foreign policy maestro.
(8) By the time Porter was choosing the final players who will dress against Bayern Munich on 6 August, the commissioner had already put the Timbers' maestro in the All-Star squad.
(9) But after a flurry of speculation about the return of the political maestro – which Blair set off himself by responding "sure" to the Evening Standard's question about whether he would like a further prime ministerial term – the survey also asked what voters would do if he were back in the running.
(10) The dining room of our local college is packed with Eames Eiffel chairs while children at the airport get to spill their meals on high chairs designed by Danish design maestro Arne Jacobsen.
(11) Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma , maestro of the V&A's troubled Dundee outpost project , the new home for the Regional Contemporary Art Fund is clad in a shimmering cloud of angled glass panels.
(12) The closest we come is when Hitchcock stands in the lobby outside the premiere, faux-conducting Bernard Hermann's slashing violins; he has a combination of a maestro's manual flourishes and a murderer's manic stabbing motions as the audience inside wails and howls its way through the shower scene.
(13) "I got a call from Maestro Abreu," he tells me through a translator, "who told me that in two weeks, I would be conducting Mahler's Second Symphony!
(14) President Reagan replaced Volcker with Alan Greenspan – who Wall Street dubbed "the maestro" – in 1987, because, despite the success of his monetary policies, he was sceptical about Reagan's plans to unfetter the financial sector from regulation, a cause Greenspan enthusiastically embraced.
(15) I think I lost twice against Toni.” His audience began to rack their brains for the Latin maestro who had got the better of him.
(16) Look for the Maestro del Gusto (Master of Taste) sign of quality outside delicatessens, eateries and bars.
(17) The problem with that question is it overlooks the fact these are footballers who have already made their reputations when the heat of the battle is at its most intense – greats of our time such as Xavi, the maestro who made more passes than Arsenal's entire midfield when Barcelona dismantled Arsène Wenger's team in the Champions League, or Andrés Iniesta, a player who gives the impression of being in love with the ball.
(18) Because every football match should have at least one free-kick maestro just as every city should have at least one court and concert hall, ideally to be used in conjunction with each other.
(19) "Maestro Abreu knew all along what he was creating and what it could achieve."
(20) The opera house's orchestra has been playing funeral marches to an empty theatre in honour of its most significant figures since the death of Arturo Toscanini, the great Italian maestro, in 1957.
Mister
Definition:
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
(v. t.) To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.
(n.) A trade, art, or occupation.
(n.) Manner; kind; sort.
(n.) Need; necessity.
(v. i.) To be needful or of use.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
(2) Even if he is Il Mister, this is an extraordinary thing for a manager of Juventus to say, maybe even a nod to the possibility of returning to the Premier League one day.
(3) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
(4) MisterRed 07 May 2014 6:46pm Leeds: LSD and a couple of E's 77E112E1240H 07 May 2014 8:34pm Rotterdam - Bring Your Own Beaver.
(5) What is certain is that the fans of Leicester will sing painted blue and that Ranieri is Mister Volare,” he said.
(6) The author attempts to show that the designation "Mister" is neither an affectation nor a denigration but a natural consequence of the history of British barbery, barber-surgery and ultimately surgery, resulting from the advice and tutelage of King Henry VIII and Parliament.
(7) Mister, I cannot breathe …” One of the soldiers came and untightened the belt, not very comfortably but better than nothing.
(8) He was mister nobody, people found it difficult to accept him."
(9) One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character".
(10) Mister, please … belt …” A guard responded, but he not only didn’t help me, he tightened the belt even more around my abdomen.
(11) While the second novel takes up and retells the plot of Mister Johnson – the story of a young Nigerian clerk who takes a bribe and is tried and sentenced by the colonial administration – the first seeks, with consummate success, to evoke the culture and society Mister Johnson and his ancestors might have come from.
(12) At 13, he spent a week in London, where he found a paperback of Alan Lomax ’s Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz ; the cover promised to explain how “he put the heat into hot music”.
(13) (Pierce, aka J Spaceman, produced the wonderfully weird soundtrack for Mister Lonely.)
(14) His Nashville-born wife appears in Mister Lonely, as a girl who impersonates Little Red Riding Hood.
(15) He's obviously worried I'm going to turn him into some kind of tabloid caricature - Mister Happy turns his back on smack - and seeks to put the record straight.
(16) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
(17) 2.15am GMT Michael Solomon (@Mister_Solomon) Is it possible the Tigers caught something from the Yankees?
(18) Where Ronald Reagan had stood in front of the Berlin Wall and cried, “Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, Clinton stood in the Newseum in Washington and cried, in effect, “Mister Hu, tear down this firewall!” But Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao, and China’s internet firewall – sorry, “Golden Shield” – is still there.
(19) I’m talking to the Labour party.” Please, Mister Postman review – a charming sequel from Alan Johnson Read more This is an unavoidable tightrope.
(20) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.