| His writing brims with death and decay, but, buoyed by a certain old-fashioned stateliness, it avoids cheap gore. |
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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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| The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots. |
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| They have none of the elegance and stateliness of the older signs, which, admittedly, are beginning to rust and require replacement. |
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| To round out the visual appeal, the front legs provide a sense of stateliness and stability. |
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| Paul Wellstone's death overwhelmed them both. The Senate prides itself on stateliness. |
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| The grass is lush and green, and the park is framed by the stateliness of Park Lane. |
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| There's a stateliness about it, as if he's hearing the sound of his voice as he speaks. |
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| And promptly undermines its stateliness by feasting on fresh canine faeces. |
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| Milton was known for his abandonment of rhyme, irregular rhythms and a dignity and stateliness in his diction. |
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| At the west end of the Centre Block, the House of Commons Chamber and its foyer present a fascinating blend of stateliness and vibrancy. |
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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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| 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 stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language. |
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| 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. |
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| The property has no need of any works, enabling future owners to move in all tranquillity into a home in which the current owners have restored all its character, the stateliness of the guard room being the best proof. |
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| On display in the rooms around the Grand Staircase, exuding the stateliness of former times, are 2 life-size portraits of King Albert II and Queen Paola. The gardens of Laken and Brussels can be seen in the background. |
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| It had moments of ethereality and of earth-moving bass, of hip-hop verses and quasi-classical stateliness, of dreaminess and belligerence and humor — an alternative to the year's four-on-the-floor dance-music formulas. |
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