supermajestic

Example Sentences

• ""Garrick's agile movement and elegant levity, in which Bannister might have been a valuable follower, were utterly superseded; a dignified and supermajestic manner was thrown around every character, from Shakspere's murderous Thane to Rowe's gay rake. This taste descended through all the performers in tragedy; and he who had to deliver a message of nomore importance than. Cæsar sends health to Cato,' would well have earned Quin's indignant reproof, 'I wish he'd sent it by some other messenger.'""
• "Thus, when the necessity came, after permitting the pioneers of Progress to fall, the supposed impotent mass of the people, after its cup of endurance was full and overflowing, has always learned to rise to supermajestic power, and proved itself to be the latent, but the real ruling force; because of the mental force evolved in the public mind, under theordeals imposed by the abnormal rule of the previously ruling classes, which, according tothe natural laws, during endurance, gatheredreactive force, which after gradually acquiring sufficient momentum, always became irresistible and begat a storm effecting complete reaction, on the same Natural Principles as growing (elibrae) of the clouds ultimately beget fearful thunder storms, operating equilibration that improves all conditions, by restoring the normal Order, under which all living thing sare reanimated by breathing more freely, because the atmosphere has been made more natural by this reactive storm."
• "It's hard to know whether Helen Haye -- who played Elizabeth - met Shaw's definition of supermajestic, but although Shaw-less and make her broadcast debut, Helen Haye was vastly experienced in the Shakespearean and modern repertory in London and North America, as well as in film (though she is not to be confused with the more illustrous movie Helen Hayes) - and she did later (in 1939) play Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion at the Haymarket."