You don't have to raise your hand or be too schoolish, but make sure the gabbers get plenty of air time. |
In a willingly schoolish way, he frames them in elementary, narrow perspectives. |
Failure to spend five minutes checking work for spelling and grammar errors could, it says with a schoolish authority, jeopardises our chances of promotion. |
Holy Angels is a public school, but the thinking isn't public schoolish. |
Joanna's answer, touchingly schoolish, is to quote a Nabokov phrase about caressing one's characters. |
So what's an appropriate term that's neither vague, high schoolish or pretentious for the other person in a serious relationship? |