professorial

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Recent Examples of professorial The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024 Review Eagles pay tribute to J.D. Souther, Jimmy Buffett at Sphere As expected, Henley, clad in his traditional stage gear of a professorial vest, took a moment to honor J.D. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024 From the March 2024 issue: The rise of techno-authoritarianism This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity. Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024 Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air. Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for professorial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
  • Classical Christian Education distinguishes itself by delivering a holistic approach to critical thinking and character development, demonstrating how ancient pedagogical wisdom can be recalibrated to meet the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century workforce.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Funding and fellowships will allow current and new faculty to explore questions and pedagogical and scholarship opportunities generated by AI, Bowdoin said.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.
    Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bryce Young is bookish, too.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • The proud dad even shared John’s grades, showing screenshots of his 100% test scores in business law while shouting out Hill for their son’s scholastic success.
    Avalon Hester, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Golden Triangle administers the scholarships in cooperation with Mount Dora Community Trust. Award considerations include scholastic ability, responsibility toward education, financial need and includes a special emphasis on community service.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.
    Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.
    Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • And Mitchell is perfectly cast in a role seemingly built to suit his usual fussy, pedantic schtick.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The inspiring leader is a big-picture optimist while the infuriating leader a pedantic pessimist.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Williams’ academic performance, extracurricular leadership, community service learning and essay on the impact of military service on the family earned her the award.
    Lena Miano, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Far from being a dry academic text, the book weaves real-world stories, business case studies, and actionable insights to make cultural intelligence accessible to leaders at every level.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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