(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.
Mistress
Definition:
(n.) A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
(n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
(n.) A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
(n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
(n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
(n.) A married woman; a wife.
(n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.
(v. i.) To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) My art mistress at school was a wonderful woman called Jean Stevenson.
(3) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
(4) In Russia they do the same thing, it’s just there they call it having a mistress.
(5) They must be Masters - or Mistresses - of the Arts.
(6) Nor do I care if he got off on any activity with Mistress Pain.
(7) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
(8) "This is mainly by reason of her involvement with Mr Huhne, both professionally as his press agent and personally as his secret mistress, in circumstances where he campaigned with a leaflet to the electorate of Eastleigh about how much he valued his family."
(9) Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the former NBA star who was the subject of some of Sterling’s remarks, said on Twitter: “Commissioner Silver showed great leadership in banning LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life.” The real estate mogul’s punishment was announced almost four days after he was heard on a recording released by TMZ telling his mistress, V Stiviano, to stop bringing black guests to Clippers games.
(10) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
(11) Guy Claxton Teachers as we know from many decades are past masters and mistresses at subverting things that they are told to do, but they don't buy.
(12) The track has since been dissected by fans and critics as his final outpouring of turmoil after facing an impossible choice between his wife and his mistress.
(13) Two years later, the production and arrangement entirely in Bush's hands, came her wholly unfettered mistress-piece: The Dreaming .
(14) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
(15) Mistress Epps is humiliated by her husband's sexual obsession with Patsey, and, unable to punish her husband, she brutalises the young woman with a savagery that made me jump out of my seat.
(16) Washington has long been a fan of the petro-dollar and Obama is proving another fickle enthusiast, flirting with the industry one moment, even as he snaps at it the next – like the coquettish mistress of an oil tycoon.
(17) Silver had promised quick resolutions, and he was not kidding, especially since it was only Friday when the gossip site TMZ released the audio recordings of an emotionally abusive Sterling attempting to badger his mistress into not attending games with African-American men , in this particular case NBA basketball legend and Los Angeles Dodgers partial owner Magic Johnson.
(18) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On watching Mistress America, I filed it as a riff on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s , with Brooke in the role of a 21st-century Holly Golightly.
(20) Most of the employed drivers in Saudi Arabia have no say over where they go, they merely do their mistresses' bidding.