marmoreal
Example Sentences
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The marmoreal perfections of its verse seemed to reflect the grand façades of the Roman state itself: Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2018
Consider St. John in his chilled marmoreal loveliness—“It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models.”
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2016
It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2012
The marmoreal and academic work seemed wonderfully warm and original in that room at Bycars.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
