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

In a series of 16 images, Warhol altered the photograph in various ways, notably by cropping and coloring it to create what his foundation’s lawyers described as “a flat, impersonal, disembodied, masklike appearance.”

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

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

My lip curls, but otherwise I keep my expression as masklike as I know how, as cruel and cold as the face that reoccurs in my nightmares.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black