queenly

How To Use queenly In A Sentence

• In either case, the story of queenly beauty would not be complete without the recognition that royal women have traditionally had far more chances than the average woman of actually being beautiful.
• Rosetti's queenly portraits of women
• Before the Second World War, actresses who played Titania usually aimed at an ethereal, queenly elegance and beauty.
• While Mary successfully projected queenly serenity, her place in political theory was another matter.
• I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
• Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
• She was a remarkably beautiful woman for her age, queenly and graceful.
• Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off). Wodehouse the Parodist
• Campbell worked with a dialect coach to perfect her queenly accent, which sounds fresh from the old British film Brief Encounter.
• Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.