What is "calligraphic"

Usage examples of "calligraphic".

Doctor Lu invited Trinket to take a seat in his study, where the bamboo shelves were piled high with an endless array of old thread-bound books, and the walls were covered with calligraphic scrolls and paintings.

The squiggly text on which the doctor was lavishing such calligraphic effort was simply Trinket's own impromptu version of the stele he had spotted in the courtyard of the Monastery of Universal Salvation, the version he had invented for the benefit of Fat Dhuta.

The 'wing' was in fact a palatial apartment furnished in the grandest style, with gold and jade antiques on the tables and shelves, calligraphic scrolls and paintings hanging on the walls, and the most elegant brocade coverlets spread on the bed.

In achieving his skin finishes on the two male figures he used the crosshatching method first taught him by Ghirlandaio with a pen: one set of calligraphic lines made by a two-toothed chisel superimposed over a set of ugnetto lines, at right angles so that the finer tooth marks of the chisel would not fall into the heavier and more prominent tracks of the ugnetto.

It was Mr Dark’s mouth over and above this calligraphic explosion, this railroad accident of monsters in tumult upon his sweating skin.

It was Mr Dark's mouth over and above this calligraphic explosion, this railroad accident of monsters in tumult upon his sweating skin.

Thus these poems were anything but a game, anything but an idle calligraphic amusement.

At the same time, in their intellectual structure as well as in their calligraphic technique and perfection, they were so extraordinarily beautiful that they brought tears to one's eyes.

He was an indefatigable worker, corresponding tirelessly in his calligraphic hand with Walsingham's numerous agents.

With a calligraphic fountain brush he'd make notes, which included vivid sketches of the scenery.