stateliness
- n an elaborate manner of doing something
she served coffee with great stateliness - n impressiveness in scale or proportion
- The superb fight scenes (choreographed by Tony Ching Siu-tung) have a steely stateliness that suits the film's gravity.
- That gives Tetro the stateliness of silent films, just as the use of glistening or sepulchral black-and-white brings some of the glamour of classic Hollywood.
- Warmth becomes an issue in the succession as Diana's death moves even the imperturable Windsors, making sorrow the visible equal of stateliness.