professorial

How To Use professorial In A Sentence

• While we are unable to offer a professorial chair we cannot compete on a level playing field with the Universities.
• Bald, bespectacled and soft-spoken to a fault, he looks less hip than shyly professorial.
• Short and rounded, his Viennese accent rumbling professorially, Grunwald was saved from pomposity by a quick wit, especially about himself. A MAN OF SUBSTANCE
• Hand in hand with their honorable endeavours on behalf of this loftier aim have proceeded their attempts to defeudalize the monarchy to the utmost, with the sole purpose of substituting for the aristocratic guardians of the throne guardians speaking with professorial authority. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
• He rarely gave interviews, but in 1984 he told Reuters, described as professorial and puffing on a cigar, "I suppose I'm a piece of national treasure, well-protected and immune from all kinds of turbulence. Lineal Descendant of Confucius Fostered Tradition
• Dallek: You bet Obama's 'professorial' - and that's a good thing Obama: 'We have run out of time,' summons leaders to White House as debt talks flounder Super Bowl XX, the team will finally get a meet and greet with the president. NY Daily News
• She behaves professorially.
• He had very clear brown eyes in a round face with small, neat features and an academician 's professorial fringe of thinning hair. DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
• So what's he doing in his professorially cluttered Stockholm office talking about precommercial interfaces and chain capital? SCIENCE AND SAVVY
• Martin Russell Crowe, professorial, mustachioed, monocled, wedding ring, looking up from an old volume of Hölderlin, pulling up his lederhosen: You have lost your "disquiet," which means you have found the way to your innermost, purest feminine essence. Philocrites: Martin & Hannah: The movie!