Definition of hard stone
: an opaque usually semiprecious stone that can be shaped or carved (as for jewelery or mosaics)
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Someone a little like us invested extra time and effort to enact these shapes on hard stone.
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The animating premise appears to be that Hamlet and Ophelia (Gayle Rankin) are naïve youngsters who are broken on the hard stone of reality.
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The artists would have rubbed down the surface of the stone slab with a harder stone, like quartzite, until the surface was smooth.
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1853
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