'lapidary' in What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World | Bookmarker

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relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

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

—p.429 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass

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