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

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

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)