Sentence examples for exquisite stone from inspiring English sources

The interior of the exquisite stone church, with its curving alabaster-hued walls and catenary arches, has been superbly restored.

Built in 1446, its walls and ceiling covered with hundreds of exquisite stone carvings, and rich with Christian, pagan and Masonic images, Rosslyn Chapel has always drawn legions of visitors eager to share their creative interpretations of its hidden meanings.

The remarkable haul points to a history of highly charged ceremonies in which the elite of the region's Tiwanaku state boated out to the reef and sacrificed young llamas, seemingly decorated for death, and made offerings of gold and exquisite stone miniatures to a ray-faced deity, as incense billowed from pottery pumas.

The walls of the temple are full of exquisite stone sculptures.

Sunlight pours in from the vast windows that asymmetrically punctuate the perimeter, lending the room a glowing orange hue, illuminating dust particles that swirl and coil and dance abstract shapes around the exquisite stone masonry above.

After spending 20 years working as a psychoanalyst, she decided, in 1999, to open a store dedicated to her enduring obsession for exquisite stones.

(I spent a morning at the cluttered-as-an-attic Bangkok National Museum, a short walk from my guest house, admiring everything from the antique palanquins used to carry royalty to exquisite serene stone and bronze Buddha images from the 9th century).

We wandered through vast dining rooms, salons and ballrooms with towering frescoed ceilings, tables inlaid with exquisite precious stones, elegant furniture and imposing portraits of family members.

The Gem Palace Exquisite jewelry and stones from the eighth-generation jeweler Munnu Kasliwal, whose clients include both Indian and Hollywood royalty.

The eight halls that follow include gorgeous funeral urns and exquisite life-size stone carvings, but the museum's real treasure is an eight-ton pinkish votive stone of the Aztec moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, the unexpected discovery of which sparked all the subsequent excavation.

This brusque summary of Stone's exquisite essay is comparable to a "college outline" of "The Golden Bowl".