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high relief

NOUN
projected carving
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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

Unearthly figures appear on them too, but as disembodied faces shaped in high relief.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

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

Staying home all the time has really thrown into high relief how much *work* it is to go out into the world and perform appropriate femininity.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2021

A male head in high relief, wearing a taenia, is slightly bent forwards to the right.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith


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