marmoreal
Example Sentences
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Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
She quotes Montaigne even more than Kalanithi does, but to her, he is not a marmoreal Great Writer, but a companion, the chatty, brilliant, worldly friend at her elbow.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2012
But that his genius was not wholly marmoreal, nor of an icy impassibility, the careful study of his works will amply assure us.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
