| Without becoming stale or unpleasant, it grew cold, clear and refined, and somehow suggested austere and tomblike thoughts. |
| The sun's hot rays scorch the pedestrian as he walks over the sizzling pavement of the ultra-quiet and tomblike town. |
| There, as it seemed to her, in that tomblike abode, lay the end of all her happiness. |
| Windowless, almost 100 feet long, this secret-looking, tomblike structure is Frick's gallery. |
| After the warmth of the March sun outdoors the house was cold with that clammy, penetrating, tomblike chill of the Italian home. |
| A muted or off-center or jagged modernist hull, monolithic and windowless, opens down onto a tomblike, dramatically lit, vast inner space. |
