high relief
Example Sentences
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This stark dichotomy puts Amina, stunningly sung and acted by Nadine Sierra, into high relief on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
Interracial relationships throw this into high relief, pushing cultural and racial differences to the fore—the key edges of those puzzle pieces.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2022
“But it was the sadness of an artist, a sadness tinged with languor and a sadness against which his artistry stood out in high relief in a manner that was quite extraordinary.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
Juxtaposed with Athey, an extremist of an effectively harmless sort, narratives of bloody martyrdom as the path to salvation are thrown into high relief.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2021
Old, too, seemed the great stone house opposite, known as the Maison du Loup, and bearing uncouth masks and figures of wolves in high relief on its front.
From When Love Calls by Weyman, Stanley John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
