Sentence examples for solid marble from inspiring English sources

A palace of solid marble, rainwashed, simply looks bedraggled.

Allegorical groups by Antonio Corradini and Francesco Queirolo vie with each other in virtuosity and include such conceits as fishnets cut from solid marble and the all-revealing shrouds developed by Giuseppe Sammartino.

He described the Justices' building as "extravagant in its cold and stately vanity," and went on: There are solid marble pillars as big as the stacks of an ocean boat, and white marble benches like those in a stylish graveyard, where no one sits because it wouldn't seem right..

There are big plastic pills embedded into the back of the Jasper Morrison dining chairs, while the terrazzo floor is inlaid with what look like vinyl tablets, until you touch them and realise they are water-jet cut from solid marble.

An imposing edifice on the banks of Lake Geneva, crammed with solid marble and surrounded by sprawling lawns, it is where the Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923, marking the final death rites for the Ottoman Empire and defining the borders of modern Turkey.

In Harvey's absence, stern-faced bassist Paula Jean Brown does the harmonies proud, and Linkous's lyrics about the difficulty of feeling through a "rusted metal heart" and "solid marble eyes" are given extra resonance when you see the author looking out, lost, into the crowd.

Even the handrails are solid white marble.

David Berg, who was in training for a barefoot marathon, had a particularly remarkable set: his feet resembled those of the Michelangelo statue with which he shares his first name: wide, bulging with muscle and solid as marble.

He has built miniature mountains that appear monumental, mounded rice on brass plates, assembled tiny houses of rice and wax, and poured milk into rectangular stones to form white pools that look as solid as marble.

But as Hulls ramps up the technology, the light invades our bodies, raking over us in great white beams or creating sense-disorienting illusions – walls of light as solid as marble, lethal blades that dissolve into luminous air.

Using solid white marble as her medium, she constructs quiet, subdued worlds which invite the viewer to stare in silent reverie.