| 单词 | marmoreal |
| 例句 | Beside Rossetti's passionate auburn stunners, Burne-Jones's figures are marmoreal, still and, in some of his best-known works, literally in a state of suspense within the picture frame. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z As slow as Branagh is swift, she is marmoreal and declamatory, with some odd emphases. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z Heads, necks and arms are carried with marmoreal firmness, as if these dancers belonged in chokers, long white gloves and ostrich-feather tiaras. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Such was Elgar's concern for his posthumous PR, he even asked to be photographed on his deathbed, a photograph of marmoreal monumentality. Have you heard the new Elgar? 2010-10-15T15:01:00Z I could see Celeste’s thin, wet jacket clinging to her like the marmoreal drapery on a statue. “Poetry” 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z 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. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z 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. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Then there’s the marmoreal serenity of the shoulder lines. Volvo S90 T8: Luxury, Thy Name is No Longer Lincoln 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z 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. As Brexit tremors ripple, the Rock of Gibraltar shudders 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z One quintet of bathers looks disconcertingly like the marmoreal Aryan nudes of Adolf Ziegler, Hitler’s favorite artist. Francis Picabia: the art 'loser' who ended up winning it all 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z 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. Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Mapplethorpe rendered flesh as marmoreal rather than as living tissue, and his compositions often fell back on a rigid symmetry, which he mistook for classicism. ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ Review 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z 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.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z But that his genius was not wholly marmoreal, nor of an icy impassibility, the careful study of his works will amply assure us. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z 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. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Gods, whom Art ever must avow, Ruled the marmoreal sky's demesne. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems 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. Ghetto Comedies Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow Or mar thy hospitality; no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul It has been tender and fiery, severe and voluminous, gorgeous and marmoreal, in turns. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Attired in ducal robes, they lie in state; and the sculptor has carved the lashes on their eyelids heavy with death's marmoreal sleep. New Italian sketches Was it her own, The voice I heard, marmoreal, strange, remote, As though from yonder throne Clotho had spoken, and the headless throat Had uttered words of stone? A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry Mabel, who took most of her opinions from her brother Julius, was frankly puzzled, though her marmoreal gift of beautiful silence saved her lover from premature shocks. Ghetto Comedies But as Collins gazed on the graceful lines of her full figure and on the almost classic beauty of her marmoreal features, he could not stifle a pang of anxiety at thought of losing her. The Substitute Prisoner 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. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History Thin as a cedar sapling, he preserved such an immovable attitude that in the haze of the creamy atmosphere he seemed a carved, marmoreal image rather than a young man with devouring eyes. Visionaries I think it was in the rich Senatorial reception-room that I first caught myself being surprised that the heavy gilded and marmoreal sumptuosity of the decorations recalled the average European palace. Your United States Impressions of a first visit His prophetic assurance cast a fresh shade of apprehension over her marmoreal brow. Ghetto Comedies Attired in ducal robes, they lie in state; and the sculptor has carved the lashes on their eyelids, heavy with death's marmoreal sleep. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The assuaging, marmoreal majesty of the concluding lines of the poem are a final demonstration of the virtue of this formal dignity in poetry. The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) A central aisle of waters, paved by the golden rays of a lyric sun high overhead, was embellished on either side by the marmoreal splendours of stately palaces. Visionaries Associated words: marmoreal, marmorean. margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim, verge. Putnam's Word Book The marmoreal and academic work seemed wonderfully warm and original in that room at Bycars. The Price of Love In no land habitation had Mr. Prohack seen so many, or such marmoreal, or such luxurious bathrooms. Mr. Prohack We trust the alabaster lady has by now regained her property and with it her marmoreal calm. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. January 11.—There seem to be two extreme and opposed styles of writing: the liquid style that flows, and the bronze or marmoreal style that is moulded or carved. Impressions and Comments 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. Celibates But the hard, the marmoreal cruelty of his wife's spirit exquisitely wounded his soul, which, after all, was at least as much in need of consolation as his body. The Price of Love 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. The Five Books of Youth For Chopin is not the cool breadth and marmoreal majesty of blank verse. Chopin : the Man and His Music Every thing humiliates but hatred, and indifference with its marmoreal pulse, its staring eyes, and its measured steps. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon I beg your pardon,' he ended suddenly, resuming marmoreal attitude in his chair. Trent's Last Case 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. The Club of Queer Trades |
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