lapidary
Example Sentences
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They had developed kindred styles on their solo albums, absorbing lapidary Laurel Canyon folk-pop, punky electric-guitar drive, glimmers of electronics and psychedelia, and lyrics that mix confession and fantasy, the diaristic and the surreal.
From New York Times
Each chapter is devoted to an encounter with one of the fantastical inhabitants of Yong’an, an industrial city, flanked with a description of the beasts written in the lapidary language of the “Classic.”
From Washington Post
Her disparagement is catnip to those many critics who like to view “Mrs. Dalloway” — that other uber-famous, if more lapidary, modernist novel that spans the course of a single day — as Woolf’s rejoinder to Joyce.
From New York Times
His books, most written in the first person, are lapidary, intricate, Nabokovian.
From New York Times
“In other words, it’s an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
