cloistral

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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

A critical reader of the present time, however, discerns innumerable evidences of collaboration, and detects expansion and dilution of more pregnant themes in the copious outpourings of this cloistral inspiration.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington