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
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
We trust the alabaster lady has by now regained her property and with it her marmoreal calm.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
