But for a while he spoke only in lapidary epigrams.
Aleksandr Terekhov explains his novels with the lapidary phrase, "My goal is to write about Russia after it has collapsed into freedom".
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk.To be published in America in April by University of Chicago Press; $35 Being an English country minister has inspired many writers, none of them more lapidary, precise, witty and surprising than George Herbert, the frail intellectual who preached to the parish of Bemerton from 1630 to 1633.
The Smithsons rejected the lapidary 1933 Athens Charter, written by Le Corbusier, with its faith in high-rise towers and separated functional zones, and instead proposed "streets in the sky".
Much of the legal conflict of the past few years in the United States has resulted from the efforts of a new generation of conservatives to reverse the work of Brandeis and his companions and disciples on the court.Melvin Urofsky's lapidary new biography is a rich study of a remarkable life.
Among these writers, none is more lapidary, precise, witty and surprising than George Herbert, the frail intellectual who ministered to the parish of Bemerton, near Salisbury, from 1630 to 1633.
Samuel Cooper's miniature of Oliver Cromwell was estimated at £100,000-150,000 ($200,000-300,000); Sotheby's sold it last June to Sir Peter Moores's lapidary museum, Compton Verney, for a world-record £500,000.The most expensive miniatures in next month's sale are likely to be a small group painted in India.
There were lapidary mixed scripts and book semicursive scripts, and there was the early uncial, or rather semiuncial, script of the 3rd century ce, which seems to have developed into the beautiful uncial script.
Lapidary style, in calligraphy, style of lettering characteristically used for inscription in marble or other stone by chisel strokes, as, for example, on Trajan's Column in the Forum at Rome.
This idea was expressed with characteristic lapidary vigour by the 20th-century French architect Auguste Perret when he asserted that architecture is the art of organizing space; but it is by construction that it expresses itself.... Functions, customs, and building regulations and fashions impose conditions which are only transitory.
The Romans introduced a rudimentary form of glass cutting akin to lapidary techniques of faceting and relief-cutting in the 1st century ad.
