Sentence example with the word 'loftiness'

loftiness

Definition n. the quality of being high or lofty

Last update: August 31, 2015


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It is true that the situation in Israel or Samaria continues obscure, but a careful study of literary productions, evidently not earlier than the 7th century B.C., reveals a particular loftiness of conception and a tendency which finds its parallels in Hosea and approximates the peculiar characteristics of the Deuteronomic school of thought.   [Please select]

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This loftiness is to the artist-nature its thrilling aspect.   [Please select]

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In the loftiness of his self-consciousness he should have accepted, without a murmur, whatever fortune awaited him.   [Please select]

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Susan obviously swelled with the glory of the occasion, though she still spoke with cold loftiness.   [Please select]

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Tell us the lore of thy loftiness, sister, We of the dark are astir for the day.   [Please select]

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So impressive was the simplicity and loftiness of his discourse that the erstwhile critics were completely silenced.   [Please select]

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Rodin's things acquire a certain largeness and loftiness as well as simplicity and sincerity of sentiment.   [Please select]

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No one can read this letter without acknowledging its delicacy and its loftiness.   [Please select]

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Hence that defiance of the pleasures of sense which gave loftiness and independence of character soon became a recognized and cardinal virtue.   [Please select]

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Although his religion cannot compare with Christianity in purity and loftiness, yet it enforced a higher morality than the old Arabian religions, and assimilated to Christianity in many important respects.   [Please select]

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This is the power which even Mohammed, in the loftiness of his contemplations, more dimly saw, and imperfectly taught to the idolaters around him, and which gives to his system all that was really valuable.   [Please select]

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