How to Use professorial in a Sentence

professorial

adjective

• Caulfield spoke with me over a video call while sitting in front of a professorial bookcase.
  — PCMAG, 25 Oct. 2022
• That’s where the professorial side of this comes into play.
  — Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Less so for Richardson, who is lower key and almost professorial, reading glasses perched at the end of her nose or on top of her head.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• Instead of letting his movies do the talking, Tarantino has embraced more of a professorial role.
  — William Earl, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• Irish, who owns an antique shop in Providence, Rhode Island, wore a shawl-neck cardigan and round glasses, and had a professorial air.
  — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• But at his nearby office at MIT, Miller is nothing if not professorial.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
• Swift has officially entered her Autumn in New York era, wearing a simple black slip dress, boots, and a rather professorial tweed fall coat.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
• The dismal turnout has nothing to with professorial style, school ranking or subject matter.
  — Nafis Alam, Sunway University and Graham Kendall, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2017
• The thesis was very professorial, very smart and impressive.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Dec. 2022
• The language was professorial but the meaning was aspirational: Hawley seemed to be saying that a thoughtful man, while immersed in procedure, remembers to use the law for good.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2021
• But there’s also a tremendous amount of tenderness and goofiness and sort of professorial expertise.
  — Jeremy Strong, Vulture, 20 May 2022
• These lectures were must-attend events, packed by students expecting to be dazzled by the oracular insights of professorial sages.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Bugliari’s coaching style today is more professorial than voluble or rah-rah.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• Thompson peered at her through glasses; his white beard and mustache this culture’s shorthand for professorial sobriety.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Ball of Fire features Stanwyck as a savvy nightclub singer hiding out with stuffy academic Cooper and his endearing crop of professorial colleagues.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• The debacle could jeopardize Jennings’ chances of permanently taking over for the late Alex Trebek as host of the iconic game show, which maintains a squeaky-clean, professorial public image.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• Analysts and employees have said the style can feel professorial but sometimes just confusing.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2020
• The words rush out, not in sentences, or even paragraphs, but as scrolling pages of oration, in which Scorsese expounds on history — cinematic, American, his own — with passion, professorial depth and a tempo set at Tommy gun.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Spiegelman, 74, speaks softly and with precision, and has a reserved, professorial demeanor that can seem at odds with some of his transgressive early comics, which can be hypersexual or grotesquely morbid.
  — Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• With a rumpled professorial aura and an accessible, jovial demeanor, Weinberg has become something of an institution in the art world, with strong relationships to artists, curators and trustees.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Stanley Johnson’s voice is low-key, almost professorial.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2022
• The obvious arbitrariness of ‘Delilah’ – which lets its use inflect different meanings, experiences, and fandoms – highlights the odd, professorial turn in the WRU’s public relations scuffle.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
• Grimmer, the Stanford University professor, said Frank has a way of wooing crowds with his professorial demeanor but that ultimately his conclusions are meaningless.
  — Sara Murray and Jeff Simon, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• But the depth of Shepherd’s accomplishments made his ascension to the professorial pinnacle undeniable.
  — NBC News, 18 July 2021
• But Kissinger approved, implemented, and, in professorial media turns, publicized it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• At the time of his professorial appointment to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Halsted routinely relied on the use of antibacterial solutions of mercuric chloride and carbolic acid in the operating theatre.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2015
• Cecsarini's Paul is introverted and professorial, openly Socratic in his argument with Joshua.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
• There are already many potential contenders, although few, if any, have the same international profile that Johnson cultivated with his intentionally scruffy, bumbling and professorial manner.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 7 July 2022
• Globalization of the economy, starting with policies worldwide in the 1970s, prompted some big U.S. companies to send their manufacturing, for instance, overseas to take advantage of cheap labor, Obama said, sounding absolutely professorial.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2021
• Kilicdaroglu has assumed a professorial air in explaining his economic plans — another attempt to contrast his qualifications with those of Erdogan, whose unorthodox economic views are widely blamed for driving double-digit inflation.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 7 May 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024