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high relief

noun as in projected carving

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The world emerging from the worst of the pandemic focused a new concentration on the intolerable inequities brought into high relief by lockdown, and climate change that made itself more evident by the day.

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Mathrani’s comments are yet another reminder that the pandemic shutdown has been devastating for women, throwing into high relief just how inhospitable and precarious the workplace can be for caretakers.

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By fracturing commonplace landscapes, she throws them into high relief.

With more than 360,000 people, a resurrected New Orleans stands out in high relief from the spurious values of the Tea Party.

It was ornamented with a series of bands in high relief, bands bearing the color script of the aliens.

The memorial is to take the form of a mural monument with a medallion portrait of his head in high relief.

Made of red cedar and unpolished, the cornices and uprights of them were carved with arabesques in high relief.

The barrel has a beautiful fluted twist on it, and the lock-plate and hammer, as well as the butt, are chiselled in high relief.

The rectangular panels of the pulpit stage are beautifully carved in high relief.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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