lapidarian

Johnson the Younger has an unfamiliar genius for color, the lapidarian technique of a jeweler and a devotion to evocative abstraction.

Mr. Fratino’s main influence seems to be Dana Schutz, whose style he has compressed and miniaturized, distinguishing it with an extensive vocabulary of enlivening, lapidarian brushwork.

“Few English writers have so lapidarian a style of writing as Mrs. Craigie, and few such a capacity for writing epigrams.”

But—what if he had no anthropological, lapidarian, or meteorological affiliations—but did belong to a secret society— It is only a dawning credulity.

Miss Lowell can find authentic inspiration equally in the lapidarian stanzas of Henri de Regnier and in the color effects produced by the flicking of the tail of the great northern pike.