A man of tweed, denim, and corduroy, he wants very much to appear professorial, distanced, clean.
Bearded and bespectacled, he could look professorial in repose.
While Mr. Zawahri would appear the likeliest successor to lead Al Qaeda, he is seen to lack Bin Laden's charisma and ideological leadership ability, appearing to be more of a professorial scold than a leader likely to inspire new recruits.
Structured around the academic calendar, professorial postings typically appear between September and November.
Instead, he appears in "Primo" as the professorial Levi, observing a world that is no less real for being mostly invisible to us now.
The general, who usually appears at weekly news conferences in professorial tweeds, drove himself out of the complex in a white Toyota Avalon, wearing fatigues with the eagle of his rank on the epaulets.
In one, taken when he was 70, he appears at his most proud and professorial.
He first appears in the Protagoras (315c) sitting in a professorial chair giving detailed answers to questions on science generally and astronomy in particular, and later (318e) Protagoras in effect accuses him of defrauding his pupils by making them study arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and mousikē (music and poetry) instead of concentrating on teaching excellence.
He can't appear too smart, or he'll be too professorial.
A visual amalgam of Michael Caine, Woody Allen and Arthur Miller, the pianist appears in his front door looking rumpled, distracted and professorial.
When Steely Dan first appeared on "American Bandstand," in 1973, Dick Clark adopted a solemn, nearly professorial keen before describing the band as "thinking person's music".
