massiveness

[ UK /mˈæsɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of being large in mass
  2. an unwieldy largeness
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How To Use massiveness In A Sentence

  • The suggestion of orchestral relationships is contained in the massiveness of the harmonic texture, and in the cumulative effect of the climaxes and crescendi. Edward MacDowell
  • Michelangelo emphasizes the massiveness of the Senators’ palace by using the colossal order and balustrade above a tall base.
  • From their massiveness distilled a sense of power, mysterious, mechanical yet — living; something priestly, hierophantic — as though they were guardians of a shrine. The Metal Monster
  • Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy.
  • The jaws were strong without massiveness, the nose, large-nostriled, was straight enough and prominent enough without being too straight or prominent, the chin square without harshness and uncleft, and the mouth girlish and sweet to a degree that did not hide the firmness to which the lips could set on due provocation. CHAPTER IV
  • His profound thinking and broad scope of spiritual conception contribute to the historic massiveness and epic-like extensiveness in his music.
  • One is dazzled by the beauty of an orchestration which is light and pliant, and capable of expressing delicate shades of feeling; and this struck me the more after the solid massiveness of Mahler's orchestration, which is like heavy unleavened bread. Musicians of To-Day
  • The cloisters are a model of airy grace, enhanced by contrast with the massiveness of the fortress and the wildness of the scene. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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