masklike

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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 men’s antagonism deepens as Wake jabbers and Winslow rages, a fury that Pattinson makes visible with eyes that widen into bulges and tremors of emotion that ping under a masklike vacancy.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2019

As Swede’s wife, Dawn, Jennifer Connolly delivers a performance that becomes more masklike and rigid as her character recedes from a reality too wrenching to bear.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

One summer morning, after I had swept the dirt yard of leaves, spearmint-gum wrappers and Vienna-sausage labels, I raked the yellow-red dirt, and made half-moons carefully, so that the design stood out clearly and masklike.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou