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She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty. (source)magisterial = fitting for a person of importance
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He thought he ought to be scared by such a magisterial fit of temper, but in truth, he'd never felt safer in his life.† (source)magisterial = authoritative; or fitting for a person of importance
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You can't do things like that right in front of the Minister for Magic, you — you = His voice faltered as Dumbledore surveyed him magisterially over his half-moon spectacles.† (source)
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David Landes, the eminent Harvard historian, in his magisterial book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, explores why it was Europe that nurtured an industrial revolution, and not Asia or the Middle East.† (source)
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His magisterial persona must come to an end in ashes.† (source)
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He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.† (source)
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Like Arya's mind, music ran through this one: deep amber-gold chords that throbbed with magisterial melancholy.† (source)magisterial = authoritative; or fitting for a person of importance
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A magnificent figure he cut too, pausing for a moment (as the sound of the half hour died away) to look critically, magisterially, at socks and shoes;† (source)
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When he met Florentino Ariza, the first thing he did, with a certain magisterial delight, was to initiate him into the secrets of his paradise.† (source)
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He wanted someone to share the blame, and frowned at Mrs. Moore rather magisterially.† (source)
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'Chaplain,' he announced with magisterial rigidity, 'we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men.† (source)
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[He sits down magisterially] I come about a very serious matter, Governor† (source)
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There was no magisterial district in all of South Africa where whites constituted a majority of residents.† (source)
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Grower said magisterially to one of these in a fustian jacket, who smoked a short pipe and wore straps round his knees.† (source)
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Though infuriated by Dickinson's "magisterial" tone, Adams replied calmly that there were many accommodations he would make in the cause of harmony and unanimity.† (source)
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"Mary would not be happy without doing her duty," said Mrs. Garth, magisterially, conscious of having done her own.† (source)
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