aureate

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The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2019

This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

In the midnight heavens burning Through ethereal deeps afar, Once I watch'd with restless yearning An alluring, aureate star; Ev'ry eve aloft returning, Gleaming nigh the Arctic car.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)