friezelike

But they do not have the stilled, friezelike character of traditional reliefs.

More to his taste is the long, friezelike panorama in which one form passes the baton to another.

Lined up friezelike are several black figures dancing.

In another image, a montage, he multiplies these images into a carefully organized, almost friezelike orgy.

Across four hundred feet of black lake, friezelike on their ridge, towered the houses of Edinburgh.

The workers are positioned in a friezelike manner against an equally sturdy backdrop of massive wooden beams.

"Snap the Whip" is his classic painting of a friezelike line of boys playing in a spring field beside a red schoolhouse.

The result is an extreme if not total stylization, a friezelike pictorial container that is simultaneously pristine and flat.

It is deliberately friezelike in its structure and chary in its personality-defining specifics.

Its main figures, all in Greek garb, are sculpturally modeled in a friezelike theatrical tableau.

In "Couples" (1994), a kneeling white woman embraces a crouching black man; the duo is repeated friezelike across the canvas.

He uses the dizzyingly long, narrow stage to arrange his performers into friezelike configurations that evoke the neo-classical paintings of David.

Others raced up and rolled down the aisles, plastered themselves in friezelike groupings against the walls and fell into the orchestra pit.

This might not matter, except that Drabble has chosen to break up this friezelike chronicle with the jittery comments of today's ghost.

He must also have admired the works of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, to judge from his friezelike "Atelier."

Providing a stirring opening is a friezelike work by John Coplans, with four triptychs of his hairy body arrayed across the wall facing the entrance.

Similarly airless is a large allegorical painting, "The Days," a friezelike composition of five Greek-robed women in a leafy glade.

"Polo Crowd," which is highly colorful with dynamic brushwork, depicts horses and riders in a polo match against a friezelike arrangement of spectators.

It is a cross section of a tusk, carved with two tiers of friezelike reliefs depicting men struggling with and reprimanding one another.

It was a commission from a man who did not own thoroughbreds, so Stubbs was able to arrange a group of idealized horses in a friezelike composition.

In one black enamel painting, scantily clothed women are lined up in a friezelike procession, displaying themselves, chatting, competing and teasing one other.

Titled "Searching for the Loved Ones at Kerch," it is a friezelike arrangement of human figures, evocative gestures and a dark, looming sky.

Mr. Nectoux is strikingly successful in comparing the choreography's friezelike images with three Greek vases he has borrowed from the Louvre.

Cheever's "Country Husband" (1955) brings in gods and dogs to give a friezelike mythic touch to more expensive suburbs than Mr. Updike's.

A time long past in history is suggested by the bits of Neanderthal fur that adorn their costumes and by the way they often move in profile, friezelike.