The commons were not overawed by the magisterial air of the king's speech.

Horton listened gravely with his most magisterial air.

Having nothing to say, I held my tongue; and General Ducrôt put on a more magisterial air.

Judith regarded me with a mock magisterial air, and I was put into the dock at once.

She bowed disdainfully, with a grand and magisterial air, to the defeated claimant, who crept away, sulkily, through the low archway.

"The question is," said Nixon, looking round with a magisterial air, "what is wages?