Usage examples (4)

• Adjective : a lapidary style; lapidary verse
• Once in a while, however, the mode produces a book as lapidarist and admirable as Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through It, published in 1976.
• In this and similar exercises in landscape "painting," the virtuoso workmanship of the lapidarist veers dangerously toward kitsch, revealing why pietre dure lost esteem...
• He created a form of light music which the years have striven vainly to copy. and just as the lapidarist may strive in vain to imitate a gem, so in turn they fail who...