Stateliness

… She had a dignity so natural and certain that it deserved the name of stateliness. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

The composition is specially beautiful, the sides are well-balanced, while the two mounted soldiers on either side (notwithstanding their characteristically badly-drawn horses) give the scene a ceremonious stateliness, which is very impressive. ❋ Maud Cruttwell (N/A)

He isn't pompous, but he's acquired a kind of stateliness of manner that's made ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Mrs. Gladwyne made a picture, she thought, sitting with the dainty china in her beautiful hands; she possessed the grace and something of the stateliness which is associated with the old régime. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

He was a tall, lounging fellow, rather clumsy in his movements, but with a kind of stateliness about him; he looked, and was, old for his years. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

There were observations about the "stateliness" of events at the White House and the propriety of Florence Harding's wardrobe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The difficulty, of course, isn't the "stateliness", it's the money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every mangled limb, every shattered facade, every act of conditioned violence stage-whispers “Sacrifice” amid the gently weeping sound track and the faded – Saturday Evening Post color palette, with the overall effect evoking stateliness, esteem, even nostalgia — emotional luxuries that only a comfortable remove can give to the hectic, terrifying nature of combat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She reports, for example, that of all who attain the stately age of 85, fully half will have that stateliness snuffed out by Alzheimer's; and, more wretched news, there is a strong chance they will also end up in a nursing home with some other dread medical affliction or other. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)

But stateliness is redeemed by Cleese's affection for his co-stars of yesteryear, and his gratitude that opportunity came his way. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Combining stateliness with sensitivity, this is a sober narrative broken up by vivid quotations and startling facts. ❋ Alexander Rose (2011)

She was described variously as “extremely affable,” “perfectly self-possessed,” “endowed with regal stateliness,” and “a most auspicious domestic influence.” ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

The beginning of the Declaration had a calm stateliness that signaled, subtly, that something huge is happening: ❋ Unknown (2010)