Stateliness
in example sentence
They placed him in the midst of them, and with much pomp and
stateliness
they conducted him into another room, where there was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers.
More example sentences with word stateliness
The narrative clunkiness is swiftly apparent from the somewhat obvious symbolism of the structural cracks and fissures which fracture the sisters' home at the beginning of the movie, and the
stateliness
of the family's surroundings is matched by similarly ossified pacing; Dylan Thomas' occasionally poetically barbed and witty insights notwithstanding.
She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere
stateliness
of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
A more reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived; there was no grandeur to overwhelm, no
stateliness
to embarrass; and then, as I entered, the old lady got up and promptly and kindly came forward to meet me.
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