Famed Russian battleship

Usage examples of potemkin.

Gennadi Potemkin hunched up the collar of his charcoal-gray overcoat and adjusted the angle of his fedora as he hurried out of the lobby of the Hyatt Regency two blocks from the train station and approached the waiting Lincoln Continental.

A squat, very dangerous-looking man dressed in a sharply tailored tuxedo, a white scarf around his neck, looked out from the back seat as the driver opened the door for Potemkin, who climbed in without a word.

They swung back toward the Hyatt, again lapsing into silence, Potemkin sinking into his own morose thoughts.

And from Harman to Gennadi Potemkin, head of all KGB operations in the United States.

A few snowflakes began to fall as he stopped about fifty yards from the house, cocking his ear to listen and scanning the dark woods in the direction of the driveway for any sign that Potemkin and his triggermen had shown up.

Turning, he raced back up through the woods parallel to the driveway, making little or no noise as he ran, finally emerging from the woods at the parked cars, and just ducking out of sight behind the Mercedes as Potemkin, huffing and puffing, came into view, a big pistol in his right hand.

White House through Harman and from the CIA through the penetration agent Potemkin had controlled.

Attache Potemkin felt a surge of relief, struck by the thought that if the Turks themselves gave this interview such low priority, his chief could hardly rank his error as a sacking offense.

Count Potemkin spent some time with four officers of the Imperial New Guard last week.

But he said that Potemkin was the last man to see the men alive, and nobody asked him how he knew.

Prince Potemkin once invited a minor nobleman to a banquet at his palace, where the guest was seated at the bottom end.

The illustrious Prince Potemkin, the most famous of them all, was well known for serving up whole pigs at his sumptuous feasts: all the innards were removed through the mouth, the carcass stuffed with sausage, and the whole beast cooked in pastry made with wine.

Only a monopoly would have bathrooms that still employ those ridiculous Potemkin hand dryers in lieu of something that might possibly dry your hands .

At the time of the Russian revolution of 1905 I was just a boy of eight, but I clearly remember the battleship Potemkin, a red flag on her mast, sailing along the coast past Odessa.

However, the red flag did not wave from the mast of the Potemkin for long.