lapidary

• Even the Viriconium sequence, set in one of the most dazzling, lapidary, and baroque Dying Earths ever envisioned, has about it the pungent reek of everyday life -- doomed scholars of arcana worrying about their teeth, alien invasions triggering not just panic but a palpable sense of ennui and thwarted plans for commerce. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
• Before nominees become lapidary, Tribeca slates a two-day program off the Academy's shortlist for Best Feature Documentary. —  Flavorpill New York Events
• The blog post and the tweet may be ephemeral rather than lapidary, but the culture in which they thrive is fed by a craving for more narrative and a demand for pith. —  VQR
• True to form, near-lapidary sentences all but trip from his tongue. —  IMRA Middle East News Updates
• It was in reading Updike that I first saw how writing could be described as "lapidary": he is second to none as a prose stylist, although in an interview with the Times last fall he said that he didn't think of himself as a stylish writer, just one who wanted to get everything right, so that the reader would see the people and the world he was writing about exactly as he saw it. —  Green Mountain Daily - Front Page

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