stateliness

How To Use stateliness In A Sentence

• The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
• A staircase of 240 stone steps leads to the top of the hill, where, above and behind all the stateliness of the shrines raised in his honour, the dust of Iyeyasu sleeps in an unadorned but Cyclopean tomb of stone and bronze, surmounted by a bronze urn. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
• The poem's iambic pentameter is frequently excellent: occasionally perfect regularity becomes a musical metaphor for stateliness, as in line 2. Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.
• The first chapter summarizes the conception of Valueing Stateliness and explanates preliminarily the historical value and the practical significance of The Great HanWu Emperor.
• We're all agog alright over the prospect of a presidential election later in the year but that's because we need some stateliness, maybe even regality, in our lives.
• At a universal level both the Sun and Leo are associated with royalty, majesty, stateliness, dignity, and authority.
• The _anaya_ never fails, and we are received with cordiality, mixed with stateliness, by an imposing old man in a white bornouse. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
• Heaven forbid that any of his scenes not be composed with a formal stateliness, or that his cinematography not stick absolutely to a paint-by-numbers colour scheme.
• From the opening stateliness of an Imperial ball, waltzing with his wife Stephanie his face almost jumps off his head as jolts of unspeakable urges take him, her and us by surprise.