lordly

How To Use lordly In A Sentence

• Objection 1: It would seem that Christ can be called a lordly man. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• The kingly or lordly attitude is one way: I make these wonderful objects and don't you come and mess about with them or misunderstand them.
• As soon as we had arrived at this conclusion, I felt so happy in the prospect that I grew quite merry, especially after we had further agreed that, both for the sake of her nerves and for the sake of the lordly surprise, we should bind Connie's eyes so that she should see nothing till we had placed her in a certain position, concerning the preferableness of which we were not of two minds. The Seaboard Parish, Complete
• The lordly sneer carried him through the ante-room, down the stairs and into the street. DEATH IN FASHION
• This is not a show that seeks to examine the psychological thrustings that triggered this frantic class-hopping and lordly pleasure-seeking. Times, Sunday Times
• Nobody had been left indifferent to the lordly distinction with which the American had guided his orchestra and the soloists through what will probably make history as one of Levine's finest Mahler performances, ever.
• The lordly jet-set singer was on his first tour for five years, playing what he called ‘a civilised alternative to Wembley’.
• A lion pride can bring down a water buffalo, and then defend the carcass against hyenas; a lone lion is unlikely to be very lordly, or even well-fed.
• Leicester's famous welcoming of Elizabeth to Kenilworth was perhaps the last spectacular "revel" of its kind to strike the imagination; though we must not fail to remember with gratitude the magnificent Beckford, with his glorious "rich man's folly" of Fonthill Abbey, a lordly pleasure house which naturally sprang from the same Aladdin-like fancy which produced "Vathek. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
• He will be merciless in his lordly demands and his political analysis!