And the people, the audience, really do have a proprietary air.

He liked the way she kept one leg over his, liked the proprietary air.

He nodded at the seals with the proprietary air of special knowledge.

"Jim gets children in the water immediately," she said with an insider's proprietary air.

Penrod noticed that she used the plural 'we' with the proprietary air of a wife.

As he set the appetizers before us, our waiter had the proprietary air of a cook.

I watched him get dressed with a proprietary air.

He had a proprietary air toward her, to which she seemed quite oblivious.

Scott stepped back, surveying the scaffold with a proprietary air.

Honor watched them with a proprietary air and wasn't even tempted to smile.