marmoreal

1 But that his genius was not wholly marmoreal, nor of an icy impassibility, the careful study of his works will amply assure us.

2 I beg your pardon,' he ended suddenly, resuming marmoreal attitude in his chair.

3 The blue dress is a tour de force of realistic depiction, its every fold and wrinkle attended to with as much care as the marmoreal surfaces of the comtesse’s flawless skin.

4 How the tedious old manufacturer could have produced this marmoreal prodigy provided a problem for the sculptor, as he almost silently ate his way through the long and exquisite menu.

5 Seen at dusk or dawn, however, the structure’s marmoreal surface magically absorbs and reflects the ambient colors of sky and clouds and even a hint of the orangy pollution belched out by nearby industries.

6 A copse outside a mine stands “coated in a marmoreal haze.”

7 There was not in this narrative one illegitimate device to excite an easy compassion in the reader: it was literature of a quality marmoreal, and it moved as only stone can move.

8 Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines.

9 She sits beside a mossy well Amid some dim marmoreal place, Some fragrant Moorish hall Set all about with arabesques of stone And intricate mosaics of gem and shell.

10 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.

11 One was Basil, who, in the instant after alighting there, had fallen into an attitude of marmoreal ease as if he had been there from boyhood; he was smoking a cigar with a slow pleasure.

12 And her pale marmoreal eyes were haunted by a yearning look which he had always loved, and which he had hitherto only found in some beautiful relics of antiquity.

13 Because Robbie inhabits the real world, in a way Mr. Hare’s Oscar never can, he casts enlivening shadows upon his marmoreal friend.

14 One quintet of bathers looks disconcertingly like the marmoreal Aryan nudes of Adolf Ziegler, Hitler’s favorite artist.

15 Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made that clear in typically colorful fashion, declaring that Britain would maintain “an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance” to any effort to weaken its control over Gibraltar. 

16 The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has said Britain will maintain “an implacable, marmoreal and rock-like resistance” to any change in Gibraltar’s sovereignty.

17 It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal.

18 Gods, whom Art ever must avow, Ruled the marmoreal sky's demesne.

19 In no land habitation had Mr. Prohack seen so many, or such marmoreal, or such luxurious bathrooms.

20 We are told that a thing is in our ‘soul-blood’ and our ‘soul-bones;’ and we hear of ‘marmoreal floods’ that ‘spread their couch of perdurable snow.’

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