masklike

Example Sentences

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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 foundation then sued her, and has maintained that Warhol turned Goldsmith’s photograph into a work that provides a commentary on fame through “a flat, impersonal, disembodied, masklike appearance.”

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 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

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

The long fine nose, the dainty flare of the nostrils—there was something masklike and carved about the face, and very still.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan