the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

very lapidary prose

"lapidary concision"

I feel nothing lapidary inside.

I type it with a jeweler's lapidary care

Her writing style is at once free-ranging and lapidary

If I turn in this pellucid, lapidary marvel

Today has that special, lapidary Todayness that the sunlight reproduces

An ice storm coats the town in a lapidary crust

A series of aphorisms that here outline a critical argument, there advance a lapidary proposition and what is, at times, almost a slogan.

vague lapidary air

It overwrites you, in lapidary fashion, with the deposit of history. Here lies the user: account details, turn-ons, preferences, search history, sex, race, class, nation.

McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn