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

Over the centuries, many art restorers and dealers felt obliged to vigorously scrub Greek and Roman objects, so as to enhance their marmoreal gleam—and their collectibility.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

Heads, necks and arms are carried with marmoreal firmness, as if these dancers belonged in chokers, long white gloves and ostrich-feather tiaras.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

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

As when the God whom Pheidias moulds, Clothed in marmoreal calm divine, Veils all that strength ’neath beauty’s line, All energy in repose enfolds;— So He, in self-effacement great, Magnanimous to endure and wait.

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry