Headmasterly

It is also that they can't stand his mix of bumptiousness and headmasterly pomposity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's a sort of firm, headmasterly tone, but a warm and kindly one too. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Fry took on the role of headmasterly host – and it was ironic then that this is where he has ended up, rightly deemed a national treasure thanks to his charming residency as the High Priest of Trivia on QI. ❋ Johnny Dee (2010)

Staines 'encounter with Michael White is well known, but I have fond memories of Draper being taken apart by a headmasterly Anthony Howard too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“And I must say, Isabel …” Dad turns his finest headmasterly gaze in my direction. ❋ Holly McQueen (2010)

Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the U.K. Financial Services Authority, this week delivered a headmasterly lecture to the miscreant schoolboys who created this mess. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition, there have been almost daily policy statements from Cabinet colleagues, which he frequently sits through, nodding in a headmasterly fashion at members of Team Brown. ❋ Valleys Mam (2007)

Sayeed himself made a distinctly Vicky Pollard apology, and this was followed by a headmasterly contribution from Sir George Young, the chairman of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, which set out the facts of the case. ❋ Unknown (2005)

After reading a couple of them Iain kindly sent me a rather cryptic and headmasterly email suggesting in impenetrable jargon they were not fully on topic and that I should not send another like that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His formal, headmasterly tone always manages to unnerve me, and when I replace the receiver after one of our exchanges I often feel I have slipped back into the skin of the painfully shy and inarticulate schoolgirl I thought I had left far behind. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I used to think of George's voice as a headmasterly tone that he had learned at St. Bernard's. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Always known as Stu, he was one for golf rather than groupies, a real-ale enthusiast and a rhythm and blues purist with a jazz background and a no-nonsense, headmasterly air who joshingly put the other Stones in their place as "three-chord wonders". ❋ Unknown (2011)

I love to hear Mr Nunes's rich, fruity, headmasterly voice, and his diction is very clear. ❋ Unknown (2011)

'' I don't like the sound of your headmasterly voice, especially in the morning, '' she said. ❋ Unknown (2010)