marmoreal

Example Sentences

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Over the centuries, many art restorers and dealers felt obliged to vigorously scrub Greek and Roman objects, so as to enhance their marmoreal gleam—and their collectibility.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2018

She quotes Montaigne even more than Kalanithi does, but to her, he is not a marmoreal Great Writer, but a companion, the chatty, brilliant, worldly friend at her elbow.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

Late one evening in Washington, we walked by a thickset monolith that glowed with a cold marmoreal light, as if James Turrell had built a fortress for some paranoid ice king.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2016

His prophetic assurance cast a fresh shade of apprehension over her marmoreal brow.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel