lapidary

There’s a lapidary quality to Mr. Pence’s manifesto, and it’s worth noting that he invokes Isaiah: “look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Clarifying all of this was the lapidary statement of Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a former wrestler and mixed martial artist who has been selected as Kristi Noem’s replacement at DHS.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Nor are they much concerned with irony, lapidary prose, etc.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

She compared Strout’s writing process to Picasso’s Blue Period painting, Woman Ironing: “It’s this lapidary folding and flattening out. These sentences seem simple; they’re just so pared down.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2022

“You can go,” says von Rumpel, nodding at her, and levels his attention on the lapidary.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Two layered discs carved out of Dalmatian jasper support a pink-hued thulite bowl; the materials were selected by the brand’s gemologists and cut and polished by lapidaries to bring out their full character.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

To track him down, they employed lapidaries, metallurgists, and ink and paper experts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate.

From Time Magazine Archive

U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr