| Linda chuckled, peering at me over her reading glasses in that schoolmarmish way that turns on the schoolboy in me every time. |
| The vice president, alas, will no doubt sound just as schoolmarmish when getting in his licks as when he's disgorging numbers. |
| She combines the schoolmarmish authority of Barbara Woodhouse with the diva presence of Barbra Streisand. |
| His lapses from ethical discrimination into thumpy moralizing manifest a peculiar schoolmarmish mistrust of his discernment. |
| One of them, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, a former president of Legco with a schoolmarmish manner, enjoys a measure of popularity. |
| Ultimately, The Great British Bake Off is never a one-horse race, it's a dark-horse race, making the show itself a gentle, schoolmarmish admonishment to those brasher TV talent shows. |
