Palladian

How To Use Palladian In A Sentence

• No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations.
• Not only did he decide to hire 500 local workers to build a jaw-droppingly ostentatious home on the edge of his beloved Nablus to return to after decades as a much-travelled top international businessman; he made the domed mansion a floor higher than the Palladian original in Vicenza "because I have a large family"." thanks W. Monday, June 30, 2008
• On the south side, a first floor loggia with Ionic columns overlooked the garden; on the north, a horseshoe staircase leads in Palladian manner to a terrace and a two-storey cubic hall.
• The Carstairs house: large, imposing, the lamps outside showing up the white of the Palladian columns. THE GOLDEN LION
• His opinion is that Palladian is Titus, and comments like this ...the "real Titus" inasmuch as a fictional character can be real has always been stupid are indicative of autophobia. Hey, James Wolcott called me a peeing intellectual nobility.
• It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory. Times, Sunday Times
• The grandeur of the Palladian villas, that adorn these shores, was considerably heightened by the setting rays, which threw strong contrasts of light and shade upon the porticos and long arcades, and beamed a mellow lustre upon the orangeries and the tall groves of pine and cypress, that overhung the buildings. The Mysteries of Udolpho
• ADDED: In the comments Palladian reminds us of the joyous expression leggings unleash: Archive 2007-01-01
• They were walking up a hill path past a row of mausoleums, like miniature Palladian villas. MURDER SONG
• There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.