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
“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
It is first evident here in the stippled symmetry of the masklike “Paternal Homage” of 1971 and expanded upon with the addition of language in “Soweto/So We Too,” of 1979.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2017
Ess only shook her head, her face still masklike.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
