Professorial reserve

Female Science Professor writes:

To me, professorial describes someone with deep knowledge of a topic or even someone who can explain things. These are not obviously bad things. It is clearly time to eschew uses of the term professorial that imply a cold, condescending person who is unable to think or speak clearly.

Sounds good to me. Of course, I imagine those attributes (deep knowledge, ability to explain) applying to me. And when the press writes "professorial", they're thinking Charles Kingfield. Read FSP's whole post to see what I mean.