Sentence examples for professorial tone from inspiring English sources

McCarthy had a wry and slightly professorial tone.

He leaned back in his chair and resumed his professorial tone, even injecting a little humor.

Mr. Obama took a professorial tone while discussing the economic challenges facing the world.

He is slim and fair, clean-cut, with fine features, and speaks in a professorial tone.

Gone were the lofty detachment and professorial tone that sometimes characterize his oration.

He was as husky as a jock, and yet he spoke in a careful, soft, almost professorial tone.

Both leaders spoke for about 40 minutes, adopting professorial tones as they explained the conflict.

"I would characterize my aspiration as follows," Mr. Tarullo says in his characteristically professorial tones.

In more professorial tones, Anderson also likes what he sees from Romberg and his mates.

To master Mr. Strauss-Kahn's signature sidelong glance and papal wave, he studied videos and speaks in slow, professorial tones.

For Spivet, maps are what "forms bridges between here and there"; "I suppose children are particularly susceptible to such irrational connections," he suggests, in his professorial tones.