Businessmanlike

Under the businessmanlike exterior, however, beat a heart just as dashing as that of a movie star.

A materialistic, businessmanlike attitude toward the creation of manuscripts or even a maternalistic concern for the fate of his books past the publication phase are conspicuously absent from the diary records.

The opening Memo (an appropriately businessmanlike touch) is followed by sections labelled according to the day, like an appointments-diary...