Yet Mr Fillon, whose calm, professorial style contrasts with Mr Sarkozy's hyperactivity, is unusually popular. And there is no obvious replacement.
Physically, Adams was a striking contrast to the gentle, slightly rumpled, professorial Hume.
ONE of Barack Obama's political problems, a popular quip has it, is that the remote, dispassionate and professorial President is just "not very good with the humans".
"Yes, performance," he says in an accent both purring and professorial. "If your suit is not performing well, it's like being in a car where you can feel every little bump in the road."
and with rival managers, particularly Arsène Wenger of the London club Arsenal, who is yin to Ferguson's yang — deeply cultured, professorial and similarly insane to win.
The professorial Vandeweghe never wanted to coach the team, and his ambivalence is palpable.
But Varney, tall and professorial, did not hide her message behind legalese or euphemism.
He was as husky as a jock, and yet he spoke in a careful, soft, almost professorial tone.
According to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a tenure-track position is one that leads to a permanent professorial appointment and potentially full salary support if grant funding runs out.
The video is the same, but the voices are different. It's not a huge deal, but given the choice I'd take Attenborough's excited professorial narration over Oprah's fake drama any day of the week.