masklike

Example Sentences

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His masklike “Head of a Woman” from 1907—painted in preparation to create his iconic “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”—sold for $14.4 million, over its $8 million high estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Typically fever is accompanied by cognitive changes, headache and vomiting, and sometimes seizures or a masklike face, indicative of harm to the same neurons that are damaged in Parkinson’s disease.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

The first piece sold on Chain/Saw, “Colors of the Inside” by French 3-D artist Benjamin Lemoine, is a 14-second video clip of a masklike face being colorfully punctured from within.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2021

“Feud” fails to see that the pure, masklike totality of Crawford’s performances was made not of pieces or interpretations but of a seemingly whole being who visually sings through the screen.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2017

The masklike face, the red eyes, and the bloody nose were classic signs of Ebola that appear in all primates infected with the virus, both monkeys and humans.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston