There's a stateliness about it, as if he's hearing the sound of his voice as he speaks.
Paul Wellstone's death overwhelmed them both.The Senate prides itself on stateliness.
After the "stateliness and pageantry" of "The Radetzky March", he sees the "round-the-corner continuation" of the later novel as like a cartoon after the finished painting.Mr Hofmann's bold translation pays due respect to the lamplit streets of the city and the romantic feelings of its hero, yet allows for a character to be "gobsmacked" and for a coachman to be a "cabbie".
The scale and contingency of the event give the composition an ideal structure: the absence of emotional genre accents, the stateliness of the figures, and the softening of the painting's surfaces.
It served well in Germany, but when printers in Italy, in part under the influence of the Humanist movement, turned to the printing of Latin texts, they found the pointed stateliness of the Gothic letter out of keeping with the spirit of Humanism.
And promptly undermines its stateliness by feasting on fresh canine faeces.
Milton was known for his abandonment of rhyme, irregular rhythms and a dignity and stateliness in his diction.
The poem seems angled for stateliness, with its regular meters and debonair rhymes.
But it is an old and allowable indulgence (at least in France: "Lost Illusions," "Sentimental Education," "The Counterfeiters," "Nausea"), and the hope of such projects is that what they lose in grandeur and stateliness they will gain in immediacy and honesty; that their local littlenesses can radiate generally, if not universally.
Usually I simply resent deprivation of these helpful, clarifying indicators, but Carey (who didn't use them in "True History of the Kelly Gang," either) almost persuades me that human speech, thus unified with the narrative sentences, acquires a certain stateliness, as in the Bible.
Ill, and no longer able to visit his inherited lands, he lived in threadbare stateliness, aristocratic decline, his large house infested with flunkies and hangers-on.
