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

Something of the augustness of the dying man seemed to rest on the grey bearded lips and solemn eyes that looked down.

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh

By the power of his eloquence; the augustness of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator; and the importance of the subject for a while superceded by the admiration of his talents.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton