magnificence

Magnificence By Lydia Millet A woman moves into an old house full of taxidermy in the aftermath of trauma.

Suddenly, she questions, "Who wants to live like that anymore, all that majesty and magnificence?"

The magnificence of our legal system, your Honor, is that we do not seek an eye for an eye.

The graceful flying-fish, like a fair white bird, goes glancing above the blue magnificence of the tropical seas.

He would not want to exchange his splendid father for all the glory and magnificence of the king's court.

Round her neck depended from a black velvet band, strings of diamonds of great size and magnificence.

Thomas Sanchez, a Spanish Jesuit, died, and was buried with extraordinary magnificence.

I could observe groups and clusters of coloured coral and madrepore-stone, whose magnificence challenges all description.