cloistral

Example Sentences

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And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

Commissioned from Barragán by Mr. Prieto’s grandparents, Casa Prieto López is larger than the architect’s own house, more monumental, and is set amid cloistral walled gardens for which enchanted is no empty adjective.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2014

His prose was described by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus as "cloistral silverveined."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2010

Further conceptions of this sort he might well keep in the cloistral isolation of Columbia University, where he lectures on the Drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pale lavender and red pomegranate trees, Roses and poppies spilling garden sweets; And tall lush grass and grain, and, circling these, The cool of cloistral walks and shadowed seats.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various