He sat in a vast arm-chair, crossed his knees, joined his hands, and with what Troy called his donnish manner, prepared to tackle Cedric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

Contemporaries rightly saw him as a donnish prelate-in-waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mainly monk] Reference

He sounds like an upper-class Englishman, rather donnish, academic of that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946] Reference

The scholarship is impeccable, but there is a donnish drollery in many of the articles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making It New] Reference

Unawareness of this is common among our donnish types, however — even ones so appealing asSomin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most] Reference

He could have been a doubting donnish rabbi, full of ecumenical diplomacy, instead of a fatally bold troublemaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is there a link between religion and worrying?] Reference

“Philosophy” conjures dusty places and donnish faces, elbow patches on corduroy jackets, fusty squares straining to split hairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arlene Goldbard » 2009 » December] Reference

It has been also a morbid reverence for the donnish and faded elegance of the pre-war court—and for its equally donnish authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Birthday Jacob Bronowski - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The donnish clutter is appealing, though some are unnerved by the green-tinted bulletproof windows overlooking the melancholy courtyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: A Death In Vienna by Daniel Silva] Reference

In fact Audley could probably be as bloody-minded and obstinate as anyone when it came to the crunch, for all his air of donnish reasonableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alamut Ambush]

But the college went through some contentious and bad-tempered times, and he was much worn down by the storms of donnish ego that swirl around every Oxbridge institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop pays tribute to Henry Chadwick] Reference

He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]

For once, Cable's mild, almost donnish manner vanishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

He looks rather an ascetic -- rather donnish, don't you think?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference

Dawn Treader, a tale in which Lewis is at his most Oxford donnish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

Sheffield said he liked people to be natural, and hated that donnish manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference

He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Lieutenants] Reference

Mr Damazer is regarded as possessing a fierce intellect and donnish demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

That is why the result of their interfaces, usually seems to be cramped and donnish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Fleet, 41, is at once boyish and donnish with his neat beard, green cords and Paisley-pattern tie.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

More donnish in tone, this fantasy follows Alice into a mirror world in which everything is reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

It's basically a genteel, donnish, version of the command economy which did so much good for Eastern Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Listings] Reference

I thought that he was affecting the poet, and in me he found a donnish affectation of the British sportsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

The programme celebrated its 500th broadcast last month, with Lord Bragg's donnish guests ruminating on Free Will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

One does get donnish and superior, no doubt, and it is useful to find it out, though it isn't pleasant at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watersprings] Reference

Britain is one of those donnish ideas that have the older, portlier generation of Tristrams chortling with pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to New governing board for Jackson weighed] Reference

In the public imagination, museum directors should be donnish and discreet, impeccably tasteful and thoroughly proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Pater's attitude towards the life about him, cloistered, faintly supercilious, gentlemanly, donnish in short, repels me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Summing Up]

I do not know whether I am donnish with him, or if I bullied him too much when he was little; but he is always counter to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference

One of the T.e Magic Cabaret T.ere's no Vegas-style razzmatazz here-both David Parr and P.T. Murphy have rather donnish personas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

I'm rather in favour of donnish delicacy :-) I certainly prefer it to the school of narrative non?).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anglian Tower, York] Reference

A gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

2000, is a tall, looming figure with a donnish demeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Dry donnish wit over port in the common room?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

In Oxbridge circles he's spoken of as, 'Witty, donnish, posh, terribly nice, far too low-profile, traditional.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clerical Whispers] Reference