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
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
The assuaging, marmoreal majesty of the concluding lines of the poem are a final demonstration of the virtue of this formal dignity in poetry.
From The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) by Samuel Johnson
