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
Late one evening in Washington, we walked by a thickset monolith that glowed with a cold marmoreal light, as if James Turrell had built a fortress for some paranoid ice king.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2016
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
Gods, whom Art ever must avow, Ruled the marmoreal sky's demesne.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
