Sentence examples for professorial role from inspiring English sources

"We're introducing the duck in his professorial role, explaining what Aflac is and why you need it," she said.

Titled "BALKAN EROTIC EPIC," the videos are framed by Ms. Abramovic, in a professorial role, explaining some of the more unexpected ways in which sexuality and the body were employed in Balkan pagan traditions and in other ancient cultures.

It also showcased the president in his professorial role, as he offered a short discourse about the history of American political fighting, complete with references to how his predecessors got roughed up.

Mr. Franco is already an extreme scholar — he has a B.F.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A.'s in writing from Columbia University and Brooklyn College; an M.F.A. in film from Tisch; and is working on other degrees including a Ph.D. at Yale — but the course on directing is his first professorial role.

He is an outstandingly accomplished academic, who took an undergraduate degree in anthropology at the University of Southern California, a Masters in social anthropology at the University of Manchester and his Doctorate at Oxford University in 1980 Since 1999 he has served as president of the Social Science Research Council in the US, as well as a professorial role at New York University.

Mr. MacLachlan finds the nerdy, insecure boy beneath his character's professorial polish, and Mr. Milburn's Nat is the next best thing to Colin Firth, the actor who owns this kind of role.

Never a street fighter by instinct, he often seemed too detached, professorial in his tone as he justified Lib Dem role in coalition in terms of curbing Tory excesses and keeping out irresponsible Labour.

Incidentally, as compelling as Claire Danes and Damian Lewis have been in the lead roles, for my money the star of the show remains Mandy Patinkin's professorial Saul.

Were he more professorial and condescending, Mr. Grassley might have pointed out that government already has a fairly big role in health care, as in Medicare, Medicaid and, to an extent, Social Security.

Weber regarded himself primarily as a "political economist", and all of his professorial appointments were in economics, though today his contributions in that field are largely overshadowed by his role as a founder of modern sociology.

He looks the part, too, with his tiny frame, balding head and professorial glasses.