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Example sentences for: martinet

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He will live into posterity on the strength of the five films he made with the great German director Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo and particularly Aguirre, Wrath of God ; his Aguirre, the languidly nihilistic martinet who leads an Amazon expedition toward nothingness, is one of the great human monsters in movie history.
1984 Martinet Oral Coll.
Clark relies to some extent on oral collections, his own and that of Thomas A. Martinet, which have been built up over the years.
As the military martinet, Cooper goes against the grain, turning Col.
Then he has another set of rules derived from his high-school English teacher, Miss Martinet, about double negatives, final prepositions, and other unquestionables that have an aura of Mount Sinai.