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Housed in a 1914 beaux-arts mansion, its stately rooms are adorned with pieces by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky and Otto Dix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Classic rock and jam bands like the Eagles and Dead & Co. largely use Sphere’s A/V capabilities as a psychedelic background to stately tunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Autumn leaves bring pops of colour to its stately buildings, which are set against the backdrop of the rolling hills of upstate New York.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“You’re invited to relax and entertain surrounded by a stately fireplace, regal archways and a row of leaded glass arched windows framing open-sky views,” the listing notes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Each of the queens made a stately curtsey to Sir Lancelot He stood up politely and bowed gravely to each of the queens.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Frenzied Afro-Cuban dancing mixes with statelier Mexican danzón; one set piece is illuminated by a flashing neon sign, and another puts Mercedes and her sister in a museum, surrounded by pre-Columbian artifacts.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2019

In a statelier time and series, Cyrus would have been played by Jeremy Irons, but here the honor goes to Jake Maskall, who does what he can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015

The pace of their music becomes statelier, the lyrics more universal, the production glossier.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2011

He put them on the runway at the Jeu de Paume — a contemporary art museum and one of this city’s statelier locations for a fashion show.

From Washington Post

As they turned back toward the statelier mansions of Congress and Pleasant Streets, Clare tried to fit the things she had heard about old Portsmouth to the right persons and people.

From Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' by Helen Leah Reed

It supplanted some of the city’s stateliest mansions with corporate palaces in blue glass and bronze.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2020

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, called the result “the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

Indian Village is an historic development just to the west of the neighborhood, and it includes some of the largest, stateliest residences in the city.

From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 2, 2014

“The monument is appalling—in bad taste and in a very strategic position,” on Mexico City's stateliest avenue, near statues of Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2013

Mr. Sargent refers to this tree as one of the stateliest and most beautiful inhabitants of the North American forests, and one of the most striking features of the California landscape.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons