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.
• As he professorially cleared his throat ( "Well, you know, I …"), a sharp laugh erupted from Hillary, who exclaimed, "I want to hear this! How He Did It
• Nevertheless, CNN has talked to a "language analyst" who gets paid to "[analyze and catalogue] trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture," and they report that Obama was too "professorial," and now America is at grave risk of not passing its midterm exams on the oil spill. Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
• Despite the substantial contributions he had made to topology by this time, Brouwer chose to give his inaugural professorial lecture on intuitionism and formalism.
• “Ed has a bad feeling about this one, boys and girls,” he announced, leaning back in the leather chair at the head of the conference table, peering professorially over his half glasses. The Girls He Adored
• `Forgive me," he said, reverting to his old, professorial jollity. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
• Dressed in a beige cardigan sweater, corduroys and rimless glasses, he exudes a polite, professorial air.
• Not two sentences into their answer the terms pedantic and didactic were employed with professorial authority. Build Blog » A Vocabulary List for Architects Who Want to Get Things Built
• In answer to the professorial desire for control, students can effectively dissimulate the appearance of learning.
• He will hold a new endowed professorial chair in cancer and stem cell biology.