cloistral

Example Sentences

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And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

Commissioned from Barragán by Mr. Prieto’s grandparents, Casa Prieto López is larger than the architect’s own house, more monumental, and is set amid cloistral walled gardens for which enchanted is no empty adjective.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2014

His prose was described by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus as "cloistral silverveined."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2010

Yet in the circumscribed foreground space, there is a cloistral hush that is completely monastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid the rather sordid encroachments of a modern industrialism, Rochester still keeps something of the air of an old-world country town, and in the precincts of its Cathedral there still broods a cloistral peace.

From Dickens-Land by Haslehust, E. W.