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

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

It has been tender and fiery, severe and voluminous, gorgeous and marmoreal, in turns.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry