Some readers see Brutus as a bookish man who can function only in a world of ideas.

At first the lawyer had seemed to be a gentle, bookish man.

A bookish man, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.

Talis Bait was a bald, bookish man who could do even complex equations in his head.

A rather bookish man looked up from his paperwork.

Like so many bookish men who have never been in battle, Jefferson enjoyed the threat of bloodshed.

He was however a bookish young man who taught himself Latin and soon began publishing poems of his own.

Rather it lies between a bookish young man and an athlete.

We are all bookish men and, in our time, we may each have lost a young woman to an athlete.

Standing in front of me is a bookish man with a goatee and the thinnest eyebrows I have ever seen on a male.