augustness

Example Sentences

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In a photo shoot designed to showcase his augustness and length of service, Norm Maleng is dressed like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, complete with jaunty pipe and aviator glasses.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Perhaps the demise of great last words has something to do with a decline in the 20th century of the augustness of death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taste, decorum and an attitudinizing kind of augustness creep in to replace the former intensity, with the unforeseen result that Balthus seems more given to pastiche now than he was 40 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I framed an inquiry I was deterred by a certain augustness in the stranger.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

Death makes the meanest beggar august, and that augustness would assert itself in the presence of a king.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander