marmoreal

Example Sentences

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The marmoreal perfections of its verse seemed to reflect the grand façades of the Roman state itself: Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2018

A few lesser-known names, including the intriguing Israeli painter Yigal Ozeri, hang cheek-by-jowl with marmoreal interiors and ghastly cityscapes.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2017

Consider St. John in his chilled marmoreal loveliness—“It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models.”

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

One was Basil, who, in the instant after alighting there, had fallen into an attitude of marmoreal ease as if he had been there from boyhood; he was smoking a cigar with a slow pleasure.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)