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 money will be used to establish a professorial chair and research team that will study mental health disorders such as bipolar disease.
  — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• 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
• But Kissinger approved, implemented, and, in professorial media turns, publicized it.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024