They were lost in discussion, their arms donnishly held behind their backs.

The church, a copybook model of renaissance perfection, imposes most beautifully, if rather donnishly upon the pastoral scene.

While Brookes frets donnishly that the new film lacks intellectual rigour, Woodward is more interested in capturing the personality and insights of significant figures.

(There's a funny scene where Bangs spots Marcus in the crowd at Altamont, donnishly smoking a pipe.)

The old Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris catered to what "The Oxford Companion to the Theater" donnishly describes as "an over-sophisticated and decadent taste."

The don turns to the others and says, donnishly, "Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship."

Wit Remained Intact Mr. Ellmann had a notable sense of humor and a donnishly droll way with a punchline; he took a puckish delight in gossiping about the pecadillos of literary personages.