The dance is a stately pantomime pairing two luckless strangers.
A pair of stately silver-haired gentlemen — accompanied by their twin-set-and-pearls-wearing wives — were complaining to the hostess about the mayhem at the door.
The trio matched material and message more effectively on a pair of stately ballads that advanced two different perspectives on romance.
On the recent album "Brazen Heart," his quintet, featuring the tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon and the pianist Matt Mitchell, matches Douglas's fervent post-bop originals with a pair of stately spirituals, all executed with equally heartfelt zeal.
Thus, through a classic pairing of stately candid portraits and empathetic reportage that evokes both the Small Trade portraits by Irving Penn and the narrative journalism of Jimmy Breslin, Comen and Estrin offer a warm and engaging snap survey with a lot of soul and more than a few surprises.
Thus, through a classic pairing of stately candid portraits and empathetic reportage that evokes both the Small Trade portraits by Irving Penn and the narrative journalism of Jimmy Breslin, Comen and Estrin offer a warm and engaging snap survey with a lot of soul and more than a few surprises.
Pairs of "buttonwoods" once were a common sight in front of stately Colonial homes; few other pairs from that period, if any, remain.
In the formal dining room, above far left, Jacobsen's high-backed Oxford chairs are paired with a stately Superellipse table by Bruno Mathsson and Piet Hein.
Early 16th-century dance tunes in all countries of western Europe usually had appeared in pairs: one was slow, stately in mood, and in duple metre (i.e., with two beats to the measure); the other fast, lively in mood, usually in triple metre, and often melodically similar to the first.
