half relief
Americannoun
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And for now, the array of attacking weapons he’ll soon have at his disposal means that some players contributing to the recent barrage of goals could soon struggle to even see the field beyond second half relief duty.
From Seattle Times
Harvard kids use 3D printing to help the blind ‘see’ paintings What the Midas Touch project does is take a flat image — say, of Starry Night — and use 3D printing to add layers of texture to it, creating an image that’s half painting, half relief sculpture.
From Washington Post
And even if we succeeded, it would be only a half relief.
From Project Gutenberg
And in this view the whole multitudinous people, divine and human, of the whole Greek cyclics, seem to me as if sculptured in a half relief upon the black marble wall of their fate—in half relief because but half gods and half men, who in the lack of personality cannot grow, cannot move.
From Project Gutenberg
On the pear-tree wood, which we regret to see left in monochrome, a naked woman stands out in half relief, her hand to her hair, seated rectangularly in a landscape.
From Project Gutenberg
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