She behaved very professorially. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a professor of Spanish literature. ,a professor of singing; a professor of boxing. From Dictionary.com.
"You're a very confident young man, Major," Allen said professorially. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
Robert C. Wood, whose book popularized the word "suburbia," set down his drink and was professorially patient. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Nolan: ''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''] Reference
So what's he doing in his professorially cluttered Stockholm office talking about precommercial interfaces and chain capital?. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE AND SAVVY] Reference
He concluded that Rachel Maddow is too nice, Chris Matthews too uncreative, and Lawrence O'Donnell too professorially subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Schultz-Jon Stewart Feud Breaks Out] Reference
Short and rounded, his Viennese accent rumbling professorially, Grunwald was saved from pomposity by a quick wit, especially about himself. From Wordnik.com. [A MAN OF SUBSTANCE] Reference
As he professorially cleared his throat ( "Well, you know, I …"), a sharp laugh erupted from Hillary, who exclaimed, "I want to hear this!". From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
He pastors in Tennessee in the same fellowship as LPC and has a very professorially manner when he speaks. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
In consequence, it used to be professorially demanded that all dramatic music should present the same double aspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference
And Obama can then furrow his brow thoughtfully, tug his chin professorially, and say "I proposed, Congress disposed.". From Wordnik.com. [RedState] Reference
That tigerish has lithuanian his mortgage bankers association to do professorially for phagun than any lofty periodical drone has. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Barack Obama, elegant and professorially articulate, was an invitation to sophistication that America simply could not bring itself to turn down. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
Beside the corkboard, a ski-capped couple snuggles on the stools, and beyond them a tweed-coated chap in a navy blue beret professorially peruses the. From Wordnik.com. [Gadling] Reference
Ashamedly do a professorially and videocassette out if hygienically are unblemished rationalistic nyse that dedifferentiation that shroud and diverseness them. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
"People often pat Burns on the head as a 'heaven-taught ploughman', assuming he was an unlearned character," says Crawford, professorially leaning back against a wall of books in his St Andrews study. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us. From Wordnik.com. [Right Wing News] Reference
Manet (Flammarion, £80), is a professorially reliable examination of the painter's short life (1832-1883) and aesthetic development from bold beginnings, the gaucherie of which he never outgrew, to the hard-fought-for seeming immediacy of The Bar at the. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
They and their fellow well-paid, tenured elites of academia must surely be feeling, at least in small ways, the catastrophe that is happening to public institutions of higher education in California and elsewhere throughout the nation, although the extent of the pain wafting to their lofty heights is measured in little more than slightly larger class sizes and slower upgrades to the nice computers in their big, professorially messy offices. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Wraith Forums] Reference
I asked him, professorially, Did you know that the first dog in Sigmund Freud’s life was named Wolf?. From Wordnik.com. [Born to Bark] Reference
I looked at him and said professorially, “Did you know that the first dog in Sigmund Freud’s life was named Wolf?”. From Wordnik.com. [Born to Bark] Reference
And not professorially. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Hackel: Enough's Enough!] Reference
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