Sentence examples for waxen surface from inspiring English sources
Clark, in his book, speaks of the "smoothed-out form and waxen surface" of the academic nudes of the nineteenth century.
Her narrow, jewel-colored wax paintings from the same time take the waxen surfaces of Brice Marden's early monochrome panel paintings to extremes: a brush width across and a brush stroke long, they maintain the integrity of each new layer of color with mouthwatering clarity, while building up a surface that feels dangerously (which is to say erotically) like skin itself.
Behind him, his waxen effigy screamed.
No, the face was not waxen.
On such occasions, Mr. Byrne's sympathetic hands seem repellently waxen.
She looks like her name: jaundiced, waxen and wan.
Attempting to ask for extra pocket money, she is handed a bowl of "waxen fruit".
The husband's face was pale and waxen but it was, nevertheless, a lovely face.
The men had the gray, waxen look that even freshly dead people acquire.
Whether she's Icarus or Oprah — with her waxen good will, she's probably something of both — Huffington projects curiosity.
