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

The Barrymores' acting talent has left me a lifelong admirer of Lordly Lionel, Jovial John and Exquisite Ethel.

From Time Magazine Archive

A velvet mien; an eye of amber, full Of that which keeps the faith with us for life; Lover of meal-times; hater of yard-dog strife; Lordly, with silken ears most strokeable.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 by Various