marmoreal
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Over the centuries, many art restorers and dealers felt obliged to vigorously scrub Greek and Roman objects, so as to enhance their marmoreal gleam—and their collectibility.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 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
Thin as a cedar sapling, he preserved such an immovable attitude that in the haze of the creamy atmosphere he seemed a carved, marmoreal image rather than a young man with devouring eyes.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
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