marmoreal
Example Sentences
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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
Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2018
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
As slow as Branagh is swift, she is marmoreal and declamatory, with some odd emphases.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013
For Chopin is not the cool breadth and marmoreal majesty of blank verse.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
