How To Use Loftiness In A Sentence
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She has left us this bright folio of her "lightning and fragrance in one," scintillant with stardust as perhaps no other before her, certainly not in this country, none with just her celestial attachedness, or must we call it detachedness, and withal also a sublime, impertinent playfulness which makes her images dance before one like offspring of the great round sun, fooling zealously with the universes at her feet, and just beyond her eye, with a loftiness of spirit and of exquisite trivialness seconded by none.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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Time will easily solve the latter inconsistency, but the loftiness of Paterson's tone is more troubling.
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Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
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Wild his work is assuredly — extravagant sometimes to our wish, and supernatural even to the very limits of poetic belief; but the genius is stamped on every page: feelings such as the muse delights in abound, nay overflow, while a true heroic loftiness of soul, such as influenced devout men of old when they warred for their country, glows and flashes through the whole narrative.
A Review of 'Alroy'
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Ah, let them still call loftiness of purpose and whiteness of soul the dreams of a theorist, -- even if they be so, the Ideal in this case is better than the
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
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He found himself indulging in the most petty meannesses, and following these with flashes of a kind of loftiness of mind.
Windy McPherson's Son
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But the daughter of Theodosius submitted, without reluctance, to the desires of the conqueror, a young and valiant prince, who yielded to Alaric in loftiness of stature, but who excelled in the more attractive qualities of grace and beauty.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Always a promising singer, in the past he has seemed to hide something of his personality behind a certain emotional loftiness.
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The selection of belief should be based on rationality, reality, loftiness and healthiness.
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While laws are prescribed to matrons ... virginity and continency are beyond all law; there is nothing in the laws of matrimony which pertains to virginity; for by its loftiness it transcends them all.
Archive 2009-05-03
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‘Be!’ and it becometh; what I most wonder at is his understanding, how it hath increased, and whence he hath gotten this loftiness and this lordliness; but, when Allah willeth weal unto a man, He amendeth his intelligence before bringing him to worldly affluence.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising.
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Myron, however, bowed low before Talena, in this perhaps saluting the loftiness and honorableness of her status, that of the free female.
Magicians of Gor
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An interpreter should enbrace good work ethics and a loftiness of patriotism.
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The problem here is that while the joke is very clever and to be lauded for its loftiness in ambition, it doesn't make you laugh.
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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
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But what Craig lacks in loftiness he makes up for in, as he would put it, cragginess.
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And he was ennobled, as well, by the loftiness of thought and beauty he found in the books.
Chapter 8
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The loftiness as well as scope of Manhattans fourth Apple store may appear strange to some.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Theophylact: Or else, the lord of the house is the intellect, which points out the large upper room, that is, the loftiness of intelligences, and which, though it be high, yet has nothing of vain glory, or of pride, but is prepared and made level by humility.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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I tell you mighty Westarwân, for all his star-crowned loftiness, is no King to me.
Tales of the Punjab
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One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings.
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The loftiness, the breeze, the view, the sense of privileged isolation - I spent many hours up there, with friends or alone.
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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.
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Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
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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
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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.
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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)