“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.”

“Joanna's answer, touchingly schoolish, is to quote a Nabokov phrase about caressing one's characters.”

“Ciara Flynn is fatally enticing as the tragic Alice, masking a tortured soul with her schoolgirlish glee.”

“Her giggly, schoolgirlish prattle and singing of the famous Byker Grove theme tune struck the right chord with the theatre full of Geordies.”

“Due to his family's nomadic lifestyle, Adam grew up schoolless and relied on self-education to acquire knowledge and skills.”

“Turning towards a purer rock, less schoolboyish according to the authors themselves, it corresponded to the spirit which drives Matmatah today.”

“My point is that, far from Clarkson's recent antics being just another schoolboyish pushing at the boundaries of political correctness and all that, it actually speaks to a pretty unpleasant and long-established mindset.”

“The atmosphere struck Rosalind as coarse and schoolboyish.”

“If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.”

“The delivery may be faintly schoolmarmish, but the substance is unexpectedly funky.”

“She combines the schoolmarmish authority of Barbara Woodhouse with the diva presence of Barbra Streisand.”

“The vice president, alas, will no doubt sound just as schoolmarmish when getting in his licks as when he's disgorging numbers.”

“Mrs. Wilbur's paper was earnest, enthusiastic, a trifle schoolgirly in its sounding periods. It caused much more discussion than poor Flaubert.”

“As any parent of schoolgoing kids knows, headlice outbreaks are fairly common, and targeting Patient Zero is usually impossible.”

“One of her young schoolgoing daughters spoke at the funeral and what she said about her mother brought tears to the eyes of most of us present.”

“Children aged between two years nine months up to schoolgoing age are welcome.”