| Political condemnation and praise in the name of art seem to be two sides of one coin representing a schoolmasterly avoidance of the issue. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| As is his wont when games are in their infancy, he contented himself with a schoolmasterly lecture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
