1. He has a somewhat donnish air about him.

2. He is precise and mildly donnish in manner.

3. She knew he was being playful in his donnish way and she was surprised that he could take the whole affair so lightly .

4. He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks. He writes haiku poems and reads Shakespeare for pleasure.

5. May, a donnish, genteel man nicknamed Captain Slow by his colleagues for his championing of comfort over speed in cars, thinks Top Gear gives viewers vicarious pleasure.

6. The film took a firm course through its vast subject, avoiding the rocks of donnish rancour.

7. Juvenile Antarctic octopuses, speckled brown, mauve and orange, look like exquisitely carved netsuke ornaments, perfectly proportioned and endearing for their donnish domed "heads".

8. I dare say boldly, in me before, still do not have a person dare donnish, you are a bit quieter to me!