doctorly

• “SM goes on to commiserate with Gunn over the pneumonia he had mentioned he was recovering from, gives him some doctorly admonishments to rest up and kvetches about his own ailments.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “I'm reluctant to say too much about it, or even to explain it let's just say that a combination of doctorly advice and husbandly heroism and sheer desperation and luck and blessedness probably have much to do with it.”

  Archive 2009-02-22

• “It is also doctorly in the sense that Obama thinks about the body politic as a whole thing.”

  Getting to Know Him

• “I will suggest that listening is a doctorly skill, as is noticing, and then responding at just the right level.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why Your Cubicle Moonlights as a Therapist’s Couch

• “YET ANOTHER endless, mind-numbing forty-seven page long blurb from victoria, who day in and day out thinks her uppity, doctorly opinions are welcome, relavant, superior, not coma-inducing...”

  "Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."

• “He didn't call me doctor though, I think they only do it when I'm leaving the office and it looks more doctorly of me, not when i'm just walking around Mwanza like any old schlep.”

  the doctor is out

• “Out of some misbegotten doctorly instinct I raised one of her eyelids, meaning, I suppose, to check the dilation of her pupils.”

  Spin

• “I venture onto the slippery slope of doctorly concern.”

  Simon & Schuster: BAD GIRL CREEK

• “Bashir's voice had settled back into doctorly steadiness.”

  Time's Enemy

• “The great tall office, bare but for cheap doctorly paraphernalia, was even more storied.”

  V. V.'s Eyes

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