half-relief

On the left face of the column, partly turned toward us, was a figure in half-relief.

Everyone had been at stretch, till the half-relief of borrowed time.

But what she had done in speaking to Covenant also gave her a curious half-relief, a partial release of tension.

Mara caught her breath with a soft cry, half-relief, half-terror.

Leeana let out a deep breath of half-relief, but her mother wasn't done, and she continued in that same gently implacable tone.

A breath half-agony, half-relief, tore from Cordelias lips at the sight of it.

It had a three-tiered metal chandelier weighing six tons, and a ceiling studded with circles decorated in half-relief with mythological figures.

The pediment above the central portal contains a half-relief by Tito Sarrocchi of Mary enthroned holding a flowered scepter.

The tower is modern in design, and ordinary, and phallic, with a top of green copper and geometric columns in half-relief, like ribbing of a sort.

We believe they will manage by themselves, though if they need more help..." "They may not need help," said Dismé, regarding the figures with strangely mixed emotions, half-relief, half-horror.

The tympanum, above the double door, displays, in half-relief, two scenes from the life of Saint Jerome: on the left, the removal of the thorn from the lion's paw and, on the right, the saints experience in the desert.

In 1792 during the French Revolution, the half-relief of Louis XIV on horseback, in the middle of the facade was removed and replaced only during the Restoration by Henry IV of France, in the same posture.