lordly

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After I wrote a profile of Rorem for his 95th birthday, a young composer said on Twitter that there wasn’t a better song than “The Lordly Hudson.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022

Lordly editorials in the American broadsheet press condescend to congratulate us on sorting things out so that we may in our own quaint way deal with our economic predicament.

From BBC • May 14, 2010

Lordly, India's Jawaharlal Nehru surveyed the gathering of delegates sipping their tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lordly Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, longtime dictator of the Dominican Republic, has had a generally critical U.S. press ever since 1930�Year One of the Era of Trujillo, as the country's official documents call it.

From Time Magazine Archive

You Lordly Foes, you will rejoice this news to hear and see.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry