Their characters are mostly statuesqueeven in this respect, that they have no background.
Defn: In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.
For twenty seconds the apparition (and we) remained statuesque as cast in bronze.
Then he felt a quick resentment that anything so stainlessly statuesque as this girl--for all her trim tailoring and large black hat--should have been even superficially possessed by any man.
Hilda was as reserved as Jacqueline was communicative, as statuesque as she was animated, as diligent and capable as she was lavish and reckless.
What with this spectacle, the excitement of the rapids, the varied landscape, the study of that statuesque figure before us, the brother of M.
These country-bred girls and children have not only statuesque features, but the stateliest carriage, holding themselves with the air of Nature's princesses.
As I passed the statuesque sentries at the gate I heard men conversing in low tones beyond the screen of thick papaya bushes placed before the entrance to afford shadow for the guards.
She was outwardly controlled, statuesque and dignified, but the inward turmoil of emotion that surged through her manifested itself in an unremitting activity.
She was mounted on one of the Orme horses, was habited by Redfern, who had done justice to her superb and supple figure, and the sunlight which poured from between the clouds fully revealed the statuesque beauty of her face.
Her statuesque calm evenness of contour yet remained, but it was the calmness of great sorrow, of infinite resignation.
He saw the sweet simplicity of her carriage, the statuesque evenness of the contours of her figure, the single, deep swell of her bosom, the solid masses of her hair.
The girls whilst young possess exceedingly statuesque figures, and what charms they have are nature's own, for they owe nothing to art.
Observe the early severity of the figures in the Crucifixion, and the firmness of the drawing: each personage stands out withstatuesque distinctness.
Among the most successful works of this group is the light and airy Atalanta, under the archway,—a beautiful figure of a young girl, running, caught at the most exquisite statuesque moment.
Nothing could be more beautiful than she was to the eyes that followed her lithe figure through the merry mazes of her rustic dance--an achievement sharply in contrast with her usually statuesque manner.
Extreme beauty of their limbs; slender ankles and statuesque feet; haggardness of expression and ugliness of features.
Indian women: extreme beauty of their limbs; slender ankles and statuesque feet; haggardness of expression and ugliness of features.
His classical pictures are "statuesque and stately, but glow with the spirit of revived antiquity" (Symonds).
Adelheid von Wallmoden was indeed lovely, but her beauty was of that chill, statuesque type which awakens only cold admiration, and she seemed to have been born to occupy the position in the world to which her marriage had raised her.
She noted, too, that the yellow hair was dressed picturesquely but untidily, that the big eyes rolled from side to side self-consciously, that the statuesque figure was incased in a too tightly laced corset.
Belinda took note of her thick yellow hair, her big blue eyes, her statuesque proportions.
With Lucien Noel and thestatuesque Graziella the revue is not lacking in talent.
It was the purpose of this woman, standing on the coping in statuesque relief and showing against the sky the comfortable proportions of the Spanish housewife, to mount the mule behind the man.
On the bridge the man who had found the body made a merit of his discovery which he dramatized to a group of spectators without rousing them to a murmur or stirring them from their statuesque fixity.
He released her as suddenly as he had grasped her,--she drew her white draperies round her shoulders with a statuesque grace, and lifted her head, smiling.
It could not be that statuesque Miss Pollington had triumphed, or was even imminently dangerous.
What is the good of being statuesque if you may not live up to it?
The close-shaven crown and the plain white Dominican robe gave a severe and statuesquesimplicity to the lines of his figure.
It will, of course, take her some time to let her spirit sparkle behind those statuesque features; still, she is undoubtedly on the road to vivacity.
His old eyes flashed, and as he turned them on the statuesque beauty of the Queen, she started, for they seemed to pierce into the very recesses of her soul.
Dropping the silken gold weight of her tresses to fall as they would, regardless of conventional appearances, she stood erect, making all unconsciously to herself, a picture of statuesque and beauteous tragedy.
Once among these funereal shrubs and cold statuesque lilies everything was changed; I saw the staring tombstones no longer, for, like them, I seemed to be always facing the sea.
