marmoreal

• Schlink's intelligent book has been frozen in marmoreal stillness and hoisted onto a pedestal. —  The New Yorker
• Mr. Denby goes through the rest - "Frost / Nixon" (not a real historical moment), "Benjamin Button" ( "who cares?"), "The Reader" ( "marmoreal stillness;" whatever the heck that is, it can't be good) and "Slumdog" ( "a jumpy, hyper-edited commercial for poverty") - and lays waste to them all. —  NYT > Home Page
• But more than that, here, Mozart was not marmoreal and bloodless; there was something dramatic about the portrayal that brought Mozart into the vivid light of reality. —  The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper
• "The International," a testosterone-filled action pic, finds the marmoreal institutions guilty of bad stuff leading to murders rather than just the economic plundering some of them are guilty of today. —  Arizona Reporter Newswire
• "There comes an end Of love, and mine is fled But, if you let me, I will be your friend, A better friend, instead 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 I sought her face It was a mask inscrutable, a screen Baffling all hope to trace The woman whose passionate loveliness had been Mine for a little space Thereat I rose Smiling, and said--"The dream is past and gone. —  A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry

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