What is "professorial"

Usage examples of "professorial".

Goethe was indisposed to profit by professorial prelections, however admirable.

He had a thick bundle of professorial hair and he wore European suits, slitless in the back, forgoing the burdened sacks of dark pinstripe that cloaked most of the pear-shaped men of the firm.

When I was at Flamborough College, examining for the professorial these in York University there was a man who sent in a very interesting paper on a historical subject.

When I was at Flamborough College, examining for the professorial theses in York University there was a man who sent in a very interesting paper on a historical subject.

Mr Lammas would have been observed to fall into lines of professorial dignity.

He used the excuse of job-hunting to meet the Schreiner safari manager, a grizzled professorial fellow named Jess Marrow whose degrees in veterinary medicine gave him enviable job security.

He turned away with a wave and moved towards where he had seen Clementine chatting beside a tall, cadaverous, fortyish bald man with a professorial manner.

All his professorial estimates of the limitations of the molluscan Bauplan seemed a mirage.

In the next three, it had paid for a new chemistry building, a heat and power laboratory, a new administration building for the Agricultural Engineering Department, and four new professorial chairs: the Philosophy of Creative Engineering, Creative Engineering History, Creative Public Relations for Engineers, and Creative Engineering and the Captive Consumer.

There was the credenza and the coffee machine where James Greer made his Navy brew, there the high-backed judge's chair in which the old man leaned back before making his professorial statements of fact and theory, and his jokes, Jack remembered.

At the other end of the table from Dowd, sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports, sat a professorial man in his sixties, white hair oiled to his scalp, Dowd knew his name from Godolphin's description: Hubert Shales, dubbed The Sloth by Oscar.

He was gray-haired and professorial, with tortoiseshell eyeglasses, but he was dressed in a turquoise and orange beach shirt pattered with palm trees and hula girls and an oversized pair of safari shorts.

Out of professorial habit, he shimmied his necktie's Windsor knot up on his collar.

Out of professorial habit, he shimmied hisnecktie's Windsor knot up on his collar.