| What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me. |
| Yet his rather owlish manner gives way to frightening intensity when he talks of threats to his firm's intellectual property. |
| For all the superficial differences, the bearded academic has much in common with the owlish Washington insider he will probably succeed. |
| Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind. |
| One, with pipe in mouth and owlish mien, was the shade of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who after 1910 laid out the gardens in what had been a cattle yard. |
| It's just the kind of word the slightly owlish, bespectacled Mr Brooks should love. I wasn't alone in noticing the slip. |
