Literary notes about MAJESTIC (AI summary)
The word "majestic" is deployed in literature to evoke a sense of grandeur and noble presence, whether describing tangible structures, natural landscapes, or the very demeanor of characters. Its use ranges from underscoring the awe-inspiring architecture of ancient palaces and sublime cathedrals [1, 2, 3] to capturing the nobility of characters whose every movement seems imbued with regal dignity [4, 5, 6]. At other times, the adjective is applied to natural phenomena—a soaring mountain or a cascading river—imbuing them with an almost otherworldly quality [7, 8, 9]. Furthermore, it lends an abstract or metaphorical weight to ideas and emotions, linking the palpable to the sublime, as when destiny or the rhythm of cosmic order is described as majestic [10, 11, 12].
- Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been very well preserved; nor is there in the East a more striking or majestic structure.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 by James Tod - The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - Its masonry is of the majestic kind which the War Department usually deals in, and will endure like a Roman aqueduct.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain - Yulian Mastakovitch instantly raised his majestic person and took alarm.
— from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - His full face, rather young-looking, with its prominent chin, wore a gracious and majestic expression of imperial welcome.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - Sir Leicester directs his majestic glance down one side of the long drawing-room and up the other before he can believe that he is awake.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - His slow majestic step he stayed And gazed upon the pair.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - “I found myself at the foot of a high mountain, and looking down into a vast plain, through which wound a majestic river.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - The majestic mountains loomed invitingly in the distance.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It was, indeed, a majestic idea, that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - He was a majestic Abstraction, made visible now for a moment, inviolate, absolute.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - The Law is what it is—a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy
