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Oppenheimer, who speaks almost professorially in a gentle, gossamer voice, took his own idea seriously, feeling the theme he wanted to explore dictated a sung approach.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

“Did you hear any actual ideas?” she asked at one point, smirking professorially.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2016

Randi looked like a wizard: He dressed professorially, always sported a bushy white beard and was bald.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2015

Could this genteelly combustible, professorially rumpled priest, Mr. Demme wondered, be his long-lost cousin Bobby Castle, a former star athlete 15 years his senior?

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012

In consequence, it used to be professorially demanded that all dramatic music should present the same double aspect.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard