queenly
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Ms. McQueen is splendid, Mr. Bean elevates the entire production and Connie Nielsen is an imperious Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman with her own queenly agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Then she tosses the cake in the garbage bag on the housekeeping trolley with a queenly flourish, all without breaking her stride to the elevator.
From Salon • May 7, 2024
High and flinty, with a bone-deep coal-country drawl that refused to fade even as she ascended to a queenly position in the Nashville star system, her singing sliced through polished arrangements like a sharpened blade.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022
O’Connell — Didi, to her intimates — is petite and nimble, with a queenly nimbus of red hair and a default expression, offstage anyway, of intent curiosity.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022
She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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