They would not buy his beret-topped professorial air but would know exactly how dangerous he was.

"Quantum physics in action," said Moset, settling back and assuming a professorial air.

Father and son talked and traveled together frequently, shared a love of law, a passion for second-hand bookstores, the same rumpled professorial air.

He stroked his beard with a professorial air, and smiled on Tate, coldly and deliberately.

Maro turned slowly to see a short, slightly built man of about forty-five T.S., with a professorial air.

But he has that professorial air that irritates people a bit.

A youthful 36, he emanates a professorial air - an assistant professorial air.

Behind her, waiting patiently, stood a tall man with a professorial air to him, no doubt helped by his graying goatee.

Suddenly, he stopped sounding like a corn-pone country doctor and took on a professorial air.

There is a professorial air about the slim Northwestern graduate, who has thinnish gray hair.