Sentence examples for stuffy professor from inspiring English sources

I have been honoured to spend time in Brubeck's company, and the slight tinge of the stuffy professor you may have obtained from articles written about him immediately disappears.

Sending off my form, my one request being "please don't send us a boring, stuffy professor who doesn't know how to speak to teenagers," I forgot all about it.

The setup of Howard Hawks's comedy is similar enough to "The Lady Eve" — Gary Cooper is a stuffy professor whose world is turned upside down by Stanwyck's burlesque dancer — that you can't help but compare, and I prefer "The Lady Eve," which has many more layers to it.

The moment you see the title of Francine Prose's irresistible new novel, "Blue Angel," you think of the 1930 Josef von Sternberg film "The Blue Angel," in which the stuffy Professor Rath, played by Emil Jannings, is so enslaved by his love for the sexy showgirl Lola Lola, Marlene Dietrich, that he is eventually reduced to playing a clown.

The setup of Howard Hawks's comedy is similar enough to "The Lady Eve"—Gary Cooper is a stuffy professor whose world is turned upside down by Stanwyck's burlesque dancer that you can't help but compare, and I prefer "The Lady Eve," which has many more layers to it.

You're simultaneously a stuffy professor on In Our Time stubbornly pretending that cinema is worthless in comparison to canonical literature, and an arrogant teenager.

Where the resistance faced by the group during the 1940s was wide-ranging and defined by a number of conflicting interests, here their sole detractor is a stuffy Columbia professor with an unshakeable hard-on for metre and form.

Gavin MacLeod, as a stuffy chemistry professor, offers a rough draft of the silently smoldering straight man provided by Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther films, and most strikingly there is a long sequence involving Crosby in drag (it's a fraternity initiation prank) that anticipates a whole strain of Edwards's humor that culminates with "Victor Victoria" (1982).

And how ironic is it that it was not revealed by some stuffy esteemed professor of archaeology wondering aimlessly through the jungle hoping on a hunch and local lore that they are on the right track, but rather by a determined adventurer and the ENGINEERS.

Labeled as a "romantic comedy," Englishman centers around a stuffy poetry professor (Brosnan), who falls for an academic contemporary (Hayek).

After a morning of tedious three-ring-binder presentations from executives, and stuffy lectures by professors, it was time for the keynote speaker.