marmoreal

Example Sentences

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Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

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

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

Thin as a cedar sapling, he preserved such an immovable attitude that in the haze of the creamy atmosphere he seemed a carved, marmoreal image rather than a young man with devouring eyes.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James