lapidarian
Example Sentences
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Johnson the Younger has an unfamiliar genius for color, the lapidarian technique of a jeweler and a devotion to evocative abstraction.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Mr. Fratino’s main influence seems to be Dana Schutz, whose style he has compressed and miniaturized, distinguishing it with an extensive vocabulary of enlivening, lapidarian brushwork.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
Proyectos Ultravioleta from Guatemala City has painted its walls burned yellow and devoted them to the bright lapidarian collages of Elisabeth Wild, an artist born in Vienna in 1922.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2015
Miss Gordimer's detachment competes with her lapidarian skill.
From Time Magazine Archive
But—what if he had no anthropological, lapidarian, or meteorological affiliations—but did belong to a secret society— It is only a dawning credulity.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
