loftiness

How To Use loftiness In A Sentence

• Republican manliness is not at odds with such unguarded displays of affect, for the "loftiness" and Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
• God takes up the argument begun by Elihu (who came nearest to the truth) and prosecutes it in inimitable words, excelling his, and all other men's, in the loftiness of the style, as much as thunder does a whisper. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Such childhood enthusiasm ensured that the novelist later on would have to be punished with our indulgent contempt, before we eventually realized that our loftiness was more contemptible than his confusions.
• The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration. Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
• Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
• Anyone who believes that the loftiness of art is above politics, war and religious differences doesn't understand that artists live in the real world and don't hide behind their creativity.
• The loftiness, the breeze, the view, the sense of privileged isolation - I spent many hours up there, with friends or alone.
• One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings.
• I tell you mighty Westarwân, for all his star-crowned loftiness, is no King to me. Tales of the Punjab
• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.