marmoreal

Example Sentences

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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

As slow as Branagh is swift, she is marmoreal and declamatory, with some odd emphases.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

Was it her own, The voice I heard, marmoreal, strange, remote, As though from yonder throne Clotho had spoken, and the headless throat Had uttered words of stone?

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various