Plastered, impressionistic and sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the tragic, of the magnificent.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
Westover noticed that Jeff was clean shaved of any sign of an approaching beard, and artistically he rejoiced in the fellow's young, manly beauty, which was very regular and sculpturesque.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
The stories are decidedly amusing, with a considerably greater, though also a much ruder, vis comica than that of the Heptameron; and they are told in a style unadorned indeed, and somewhat dry, lacking the simplicity of the older French, and not yet attaining to the graces of the newer, but forcible, distinct, and sculpturesque, if not picturesque.
"The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)"
Margaret, Queen Of Navarre