“As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out.”

“Benny Goodman, who commissioned the work, saunters through it proprietorially.”

“It's a production in which less means infinitely more: a scene in which Carolyn Dobbin's Penelope is proprietorially pawed by the suitors is deeply unsettling without being remotely explicit.”

“I pay a last visit to the graveyard, where the rooks caw and a black cat follows me around proprietarily.”

“Though several are proprietarily expert about this or that, nobody is a genius here.”

“We saw two empty stools, but a man sporting a blazer-T-shirt look was standing proprietarily over one of them.”