Spotting him in the cafeteria, she's transfixed by his "devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful" face, marble-smooth skin, bronze hair and stormy eyes.
Pereira's design for LACMA consisted of three separate and largely windowless buildings; faced in split-face marble tile, they were set back from Wilshire and lifted above a series of reflecting pools.
The steel frame buildings, made of concrete faced with split-face marble tile, were named after Howard Ahmanson, Bart Lytton (renamed the Armand Hammer Building in 1968) and Leo S. Bing, the late husband of benefactor Anna Bing Arnold.
One guy looked really grey, with a face like marble, and we just tried to keep him from slipping into unconsciousness.
Even in the face of marble-hearted ingratitude, there is nothing of bitterness in Geoffrey Robinson.Nor is there anything of absolute Oriental luxury about my own flat.
Faced with marble and lined with palm trees, it was the lobby-floor corridor of the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which opened in 1897 at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.
On entering the cafe, diners face a marble-topped demi-lune that holds a display of showy cakes, a side business of the restaurant.
Next to the library, faces of marble, also carved by Ms. Donahue, loom out of clear water, now and then enlivened by a tumbling waterfall that stops and starts as if with a mind of its own.
It was the first building west of Winnipeg to be faced with marble.
Exiting the plaza you are immediately hit in the face by marble-coated office buildings and wide open wind-swept spaces.
The tall leggy redhead faced the marble-topped counter wondering just when her life went wrong.
