marmoreal

• “It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor.”

  The Wall Street Journal: O Captain, Our Captain

• “Comedies opera buffa such as this made opera seria look marmoreal.”

  The Guardian: Opera through the ages

• “If "Salt" makes anything clear, it's that the most superhuman stunt Jolie performs in the movie can't be found in the over-the-top set pieces, or in her deceptively layered performance as the film's slippery title character -- or even in the marmoreal perfection she has reached as a physically flawless screen object.”

  The Washington Post: Action figure: Angelina Jolie is out to prove she's an actress worth her 'Salt'

• “More deeply psychological than the first two, "Eclipse" goes further not just in advancing the story but also in illuminating the tension that Bella embodies -- between autonomy and surrender -- and clarifying her desire to become a bloodless, marmoreal being who has no human connections.”

  The Washington Post: 'Eclipse' movie goes deep into obsessions of those living in 'Twilight'

• “The Swedish pixie-outlaw Lisbeth Salander returns in the second of a trilogy of thrillers (after “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) to smite her enemies with electronic wizardry and marmoreal eyes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Book Lover’s Summer

• “Pale, marmoreal Eliot was there last week, like a chapped office boy on a high stool, with a cold in his head, until he warms a little, which he did.”

  Blogging vs. Journaling

• “John Updike described her writing as marmoreal and elegant – thus pasted in the back of book “That Mighty Sculptor, Time”.”

  Marguerite Yourcenar – Madame Bibliotheque

• “At the gala opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New Greek and Roman Galleries, last spring, the cynosure in the skylit atrium was neither a society starlet in borrowed couture nor one of her 2,000-year-old marmoreal counterparts.”

  The Shape of Thighs to Come

• “He knew Florence in its marmoreal smoothness and in its gritty and cobbled roughness.”

  Flush: a biography

• “There remain the Travels through France and Italy, by T. Smollett, M.D., and though these may not exhibit the marmoreal glamour of Johnson, or the intimate fascination of Fielding, or the essential literary quality which permeates the subtle dialogue and artful vignette of Sterne, yet I shall endeavour to show, not without some hope of success among the fair-minded, that the”

  Travels through France and Italy

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