Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either.
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Teacherly
Synonyms for "teacherly" (4 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
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Related words (2)
Adjective(2 words)
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2 translations across 1 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- opettaja adj (of or relating to teachers)
- opettajamainen adj (suggestive of a teacher)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways.
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Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum").
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