Sentence examples for marble more from inspiring English sources

In "The Quarry," an essay in the exhibition catalog, Karen Sherry points out that the sculptures and buildings Sargent painted in his watercolors were often made of Carrara marble; more fundamentally, the quarries must have been visually irresistible to Sargent, with their huge blocks of white stone arranged in the sun.

Baltimore's neighborhoods have long been a favorite of international journalists in Washington looking for an America with less marble, more grit and plainspoken citizens who can give voice to some of the nation's more pressing concerns.

After the test, the number of buried marbles (more than 75% of the marble volume) was counted and the bedding changed.

At the end of the session, the rat was removed from the cage and a count was made of the number of marbles more than two-thirds buried.

Shoot each marble twice more, recording the speeds; the aim is to make the marbles go as fast as possible.

The orientation of the church and the low height of the surrounding buildings allow the marble steeple more than ample exposure to the sun, which shines right up Broadway in winter.

In the five years since his son was murdered, with eleven other people, in an Aurora movie theatre, Sullivan has returned to the capitol's wood-panelled hearing rooms and marble hallways more than twenty times.

Michelangelo is just the name of a local restaurant and hotel, and Carrara's marble is more likely to wind up as the floor of a foyer in Beverly Hills than as the medium for a heralded sculpture.

An esthetic effect similar to that of natural marble was more apparent in those samples in which the microstructure presented a visual contrast between the bulk and the coarse frit.

My preference is for less marble and more portals paired with seating configurations to serve the anticipated volume of riders on a line that will extend to the Westwood/Brentwood VA.

As in the rest of Europe, the furniture would always be left arranged against a wall, to be moved forward by servants if required, never in the later conversational style in the centre of a room, which in the Baroque era was always left empty so as better to display the marble, or more often ceramic, patterned floor tiles.