sculpturesque

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He also developed a manner more pictorial than sculpturesque, which justifies our calling him a painter in bronze.

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  1. adjective Suggestive of or having the qualities of sculpture.

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  • Stop motion animation -- with its puppets and sculpturesque backgrounds -- is, when handled by a master like Trnka, Starewicz or Svankmajer, one of the most utterly beguiling of cinematic forms, whatever the intended audience. —  Movie City News
  • He also developed a manner more pictorial than sculpturesque, which justifies our calling him a painter in bronze. —  Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
  • The Classical style has well been called sculpturesque, the Romantic picturesque. —  A History of English Literature
  • Her countrywomen have no anxious vanities, because, for one reason, they are generally "sculpturesque," and are very little altered by mere accidents of dress or arrangement. —  The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard
  • Plastered, impressionistic and sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the tragic, of the magnificent. —  Penrod and Sam
 

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/skəlptʃəˈrɛsk/
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