The professorial duties at that college included having office hours to meet with students to answer their questions. From LearnThat.org.
It is clearly time to eschew uses of the term professorial that imply a cold, condescending person who is unable to think or speak clearly. From Wordnik.com. [FemaleScienceProfessor] Reference
He is often described as professorial and has written a number of academic papers on monetary policy. From Wordnik.com. [Acting Chief Says Disputes] Reference
Obama was in professorial mode, so it wasn't exactly riveting, but he made a couple of interesting points. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
What might be called a professorial simplicity is seen in many of. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
He is described as professorial, calm, cool, technocratic, a lover of argument and debate. From Wordnik.com. [I cite] Reference
I suspect that, at some point in her younger life, as a student, she decided to adopt this "professorial" tone. From Wordnik.com. ["And people are going to have to take better care of themselves. We cannot afford all the illness that folks are bringing on themselves."] Reference
Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Maryland Community Forums] Reference
Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience - CNN.com. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Gingrich has a "professorial" reputation because mainstream political pundits like Chris. From Wordnik.com. [Political Animal] Reference
But this leads to an interesting question; are there "professorial" fashion standards that we. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Obama, meanwhile, must avoid appearing too aloof and "professorial," Baker said, poking at his own line of work. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
He has posted many of these short "professorial" videos on Twitter, often responding to individual fans or critics. From Wordnik.com. [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference
See, the problem is with us dummies out here who just aren't smart enough to understand the "professorial" lectures of Professor Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
"professorial" or that he knows even thing one about the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
In addition to his scientific and professorial labours. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Unhappily he did not deliver a single professorial lecture. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Of its professorial staff only five out of twenty-one are priests. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
The tall, professorial man stands at the coffee counter, sniffing. From Wordnik.com. [Back To Basics For Bricks And Mortar] Reference
The same king endowed three professorial chairs with P 10,000 each. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The professorial chair to which he was invited in 1877 was at King's. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The professorial radical of those days was the young Andrew D. White. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
It was in the professorial line that more help from the West was required. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
A rumpled, professorial Jim Jeffords is the new cult figure on college campuses. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Beltway's Winners And Losers] Reference
So, too, at the dawn of his professorial career, Luis de Leon had easily carried a. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
He sounded agitated, professorial, apocalyptic: in another words, like the old Newt. From Wordnik.com. [Looking At A Scary Prospect] Reference
Tribe was self-confident and professorial, clearly at ease jostling with the judges. From Wordnik.com. [The View From The Courtroom] Reference
While Weigel's tone was professorial, the thousands of comments on his piece were not. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Issue] Reference
Its chairs professorial and for instructors should be placed upon a permanent footing. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900] Reference
Until now, however, voters seem underwhelmed by this meticulous, professorial policy wonk. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Long Road] Reference
President Obama isn't even all that restrained, and he's still considered too professorial. From Wordnik.com. [Can we really blame Lady Gaga for being politically incoherent?] Reference
Clad in a gray tweed jacket, he spoke with a bemused detachment that is almost professorial. From Wordnik.com. [Sony's Mr. Fixit] Reference
Clondahorky, Donegal, and resided there when not called by his professorial duties to Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Omitting the commendations, the following comments may be useful to other professorial tyros: 1. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference
The explanation of this disregard of the personal element in the professorial character is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
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