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
It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2012
As when the God whom Pheidias moulds, Clothed in marmoreal calm divine, Veils all that strength ’neath beauty’s line, All energy in repose enfolds;— So He, in self-effacement great, Magnanimous to endure and wait.
From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Henry Morley
