How to Use lapidary in a Sentence

lapidary

adjective

• The market will feature crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs and lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
• The show features fossils crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs along with lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• There will everything from crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs to lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
• His books, most written in the first person, are lapidary, intricate, Nabokovian.
  — Charles McGrath, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• During the 1950s, lapidary became a popular hobby in the United States.
  — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
• This is a straight-ahead trio for the ages, fed by a tension between Mr. Jarrett’s resolute, lapidary touch and the collective’s shape-shifting, onward drive.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• Typical of the Netflix large-portions ethos, a few new episodes are too long, and feel diluted compared with the lapidary early seasons.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
• By one reckoning, Housman’s lapidary phrases have been used as titles for more books than any other source except the Bible and Shakespeare.
  — Jamie James, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• When identical copies of tools are required, his team uses lapidary equipment, or rock-cutters, to mass-produce them.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• There’s much to love and admire about this haunting movie, including its lapidary visuals.
  — Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott and Stephen Holden, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2016
• In fact, with its gray tones, the sculptural, lapidary quality of face and flesh, and the way the head and shoulders emerge from a triangular, mountain-like shape, the composition conjures thoughts of Mount Rushmore.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Feb. 2018
• The event will feature wholesale and retail fashion accessories, gift merchandise, lapidary and beads.
  — Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• The painting is labored and lapidary, a bravura display of the artist’s ability to counterfeit finishes ranging from gold to velvet to glass to fur, and to catch in a likeness the depths of longing, including his own.
  — Jane Kamensky, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• In both areas, not surprisingly, McEwan's brilliant, lapidary style carries the day.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• Displays include unusual rock specimens, lapidary arts, fossils, gems and minerals from around the world.
  — oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2022
• But whenever things turn too lapidary, the image will change to Sergio charging up a sheer hill or Gianfranco trying to winkle another thousand euros out of a chef.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• Mohsin Hamid’s dynamic yet lapidary books have all explored the convulsive changes overtaking the world, as tradition and modernity clash headlong, and as refugees — fleeing war or poverty or hopelessness — try to make their way to safer ground.
  — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2017
• Her firmly modeled countenance, lapidary as a piece of sculpture, emerges from a thick, black-blue spatial environment that seems to recede endlessly in all directions.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• In addition to lapidary displays there also will be fossils and Indian artifacts.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• His literary criticism is sometimes classic and even lapidary, as in his famous 1912 introduction to Dickens’s novel Hard Times.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
• Stuart catalogs, with a lapidary eye, the effects of family trauma and wide-scale social and economic depression on his young protagonists.
  — Claire Jarvis, The Atlantic, 12 July 2022
• What’s more, Stravinsky’s voice as a composer and Auden’s as a poet have certain qualities in common, especially a lapidary clarity.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• Judy’s lapidary construction is a setting for Renée Zellweger’s performance, which attempts a precarious tribute.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• Holly Zewalk, an active club member, said the club's mission is to create for members and visitors opportunities to appreciate, learn and develop skills in lapidary and related sciences and arts.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
• In absorbing detail and lapidary prose, Gage, a historian at Yale, makes clear that Hoover designed his bureau to be a potent tool for advancing the security needs of a growing national government—no matter which president or party controlled it.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Outside of science, his interests included wine making, lapidary work and orchid cultivation.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
• Kunberger-Striepe started lapidary classes to expand her jewelry skill set and started Lapidify shortly afterward.
  — Vanessa Infanzon, charlotteobserver, 12 Mar. 2018
• Usful also is selling its equipment and office furniture, including a laser etcher, lapidary, kiln, fire polish machine, tile saw, ladder, commercial dishwasher, office chairs, desk, cubical walls and shelving, refrigerator and microwave.
  — Audrey Dutton, idahostatesman, 12 May 2017
• Every character is memorable, every sentence unostentatiously lapidary.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2017
• The market will feature crystals and gems, rough slabs and cabs and lapidary tools.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021

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