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
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
Attired in ducal robes, they lie in state; and the sculptor has carved the lashes on their eyelids, heavy with death's marmoreal sleep.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
