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sculpturesque

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sculp·tur·esque  (sklpch-rsk)
adj.
Suggestive of or having the qualities of sculpture.
sculptur·esquely adv.
sculpturesque [ˌskʌlptʃəˈrɛsk]
adj
resembling sculpture
sculpturesquely  adv
sculpturesqueness  n
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Adj.1.sculpturesque - resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies"
modeled, sculptural, sculptured
shapely - having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs"


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Particularly sculpturesque and plastic, so to say, and richly colored is that passage where you feel Cordelia's approach, where woman, das ewig Weibliche, enters into conflict with fate.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The Classical style has well been called sculpturesque, the Romantic picturesque.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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