How To Use Stateliness In A Sentence
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His writing brims with death and decay, but, buoyed by a certain old-fashioned stateliness, it avoids cheap gore.
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At the doorway he turned to look back at her, standing in all her sweet stateliness in the twilight duskness, and the keen realization of all he had lost made him bow his head with a quick pang of regret.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
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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.
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Debby's bright face clouded over, and she walked on with so much stateliness that her escort wondered "what the deuse the old lady had done to her," and exerted himself to the utmost to recall her merry mood, but with indifferent success.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Speak of his style and stateliness, not the mere $250K from that now-defunct little mortgager FAN/FRED.
"No convention today!... OK, it's on!... The economy's sound... No, wait, it's going to fall apart unless I go to Washington tomorrow!... "
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The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
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The language, which is derived chiefly from Latin, is thence in such a way derived as to have lost the regularity and stateliness of its ancient original, without having compensated itself with any richness and sweetness of sound peculiarly its own; like, for instance, that canorous vowel quality of its sister derivative, the Italian.
Classic French Course in English
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The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight.
The 12:39 to Matanzas
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Nowhere, in the temperate zone, have I seen such an abundance of the pteris, blechnum, and asplenium; yet none of these plants have the stateliness of the arborescent ferns which, at the height of five or six hundred toises, form the principal ornament of equinoctial America.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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What think you of callas -- their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The humpback whale, that mighty leviathan of the briny deep, hardly strikes one as a marvel of agility; on the contrary, it seems the very embodiment of stateliness and power.
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The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
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she served coffee with great stateliness
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To the simple and ardent idealist its white stateliness must always suggest something symbolic, and, after all, it is the ardent and simple idealist whose dreams and symbols paint to prosaic human minds the beautiful impossibilities whose unattainable loveliness so allures as to force even the unexalted world into the endeavour to create such reproductions of their forms as crude living will allow.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
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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.
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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.
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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
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At a universal level both the Sun and Leo are associated with royalty, majesty, stateliness, dignity, and authority.
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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.
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The first chapter summarizes the conception of Valueing Stateliness and explanates preliminarily the historical value and the practical significance of The Great HanWu Emperor.
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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.
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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
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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
