dirgelike

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In a poignant picture of grinning young men leaning out of a railroad car and raising clenched fists on their way to the Aragon front, the friezelike composition highlights the specific traits of each soldier.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Besides Mr. Tiravanija’s curry lunch there will be a 1982 friezelike mural by Keith Haring, another addition to the museum’s holdings.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011

Their flattened, stylized forms, and the often friezelike arrangement of the figures, suggested Greek vase art set to a jazz soundtrack.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2010

Most of the pieces are not stories at all but evocative, friezelike sketches that try to catch a country scene or a moment of action.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bas-relief in plaster of the Elgin marbles ran friezelike the full length of the party wall, and fixed immediately above the fountain niche the terrible mask of the Medusa face looked down upon us.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel