ceremoniousness

The atmosphere of a tree house extended to the ceremoniousness that followed.

There was an odd ceremoniousness in her voice.

They stepped back at this, and raised again their hands to their hats with marked ceremoniousness.

That strange ceremoniousness, too, at other times evinced, seemed not uncharacteristic of one playing a part above his real level.

There were a score of soldiers mounted before them, clad neatly in brown and gold, weapons presented toward him with high ceremoniousness.

"But why this new ceremoniousness of 'ladyship,' reverend sir?"

With great effort, scrambling for adequate meanings in his pitifully poor list of human words, he attempted to answer with due ceremoniousness.

Morgaine found herself yawning at the ceremoniousness of this-she was, after all, a kinswoman, not a state visitor.

(Holm did not tolerate time-wasting ceremoniousness in his department; but he admitted its importance to Ythrians.)

The rider gentled it, then flung himself out of the saddle with an athlete's grace and swiftness and a complete lack of ceremoniousness.

From the white-glove elegance of the friends who form the dinner party to the proud ceremoniousness of the brothers' manners, "Big Night" thrives on small but impeccable touches.

The only sign of the old man getting ready was a stiffening of his spine and a ceremoniousness in the way he pressed his hands together, cleared his throat.

Charpentier's opera is a generation away from the courtly ceremoniousness of "Atys" and a generation closer to the Medean vengeance of the French Revolution.

Used as he was to acting as a "true speech" interpreter, the prospect of so much ceremoniousness in which he himself would be expected to play a central and imaginative part made him nervous.

The action is ritualistic throughout and, with its stately themes and ominous ostinatos, the taped score by Yoichiro Yoshikawa and Yas-Kaz emphasizes the production's ceremoniousness.

That he sits, instead of walking on the beach or through the creekside stands of pine, suggests the ceremoniousness of a mourner; that he drifts suggests a mourner unmoored.

The narration is delivered with knowing fury in Japanese by Kayoko Shiraishi, in traditional garb, who adds a Japanese ceremoniousness to what the narration calls the "monumental aspect" of the drama.

On the morning after her awakening, five or six deads had come into her room to celebrate with her, her successful transition across the interface, and they had had that big mirror with them; delicately, with great ceremoniousness, .'

In one major work, "The Labyrinth of Solitude," published in 1950, he offered an analysis of modern Mexico and the Mexican personality in which he described his fellow countrymen as instinctive nihilists who hide behind masks of solitude and ceremoniousness.

'But from about 1330 there is a steady decline in regularity and architectural quality: even in formal documents the writing is not only strongly cursive but wanting in discipline, and suggests an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the claims of ceremoniousness and speed' (Hector,op cit ).

Commonsense, not without distinguished endorsement from past centuries, thinks as Hart Crane did that it is not true at all; that on the contrary there are occasions too trivial, too lacking in dignity or resonance, to deserve the ceremoniousness that, as Tomlinson perceived, verse-writing always brings with it.