| Political condemnation and praise in the name of art seem to be two sides of one coin representing a schoolmasterly avoidance of the issue. |
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| As is his wont when games are in their infancy, he contented himself with a schoolmasterly lecture. |
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| To its followers, heritage offered a free ticket into a past liberated from the schoolmasterly disciplines of chronology, narrative, and moral judgment. |
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| This means proceeding with great sensitivity and not taking a schoolmasterly line or apportioning blame to one side alone. |
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| He has a schoolmasterly way of looking you firmly in the eye as if he can see that you don't really believe him, but it would be wise to keep that to yourself. |
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| In July one poll of left-wing sympathisers had the two front-runners neck-and neck: François Hollande, a schoolmasterly former party boss, and Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille and his successor as party leader. |
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| In a moment of madness, Mr Blair let the schoolmasterly Mr Raynsford say that he would stand for London mayor, only to shunt him aside by telling Frank Dobson, then health secretary, to stand instead. |
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| So let me say that we must indeed talk about the state of democracy in Russia, but we cannot talk down to that country in a lofty and schoolmasterly way. |
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