limn
Example Sentences
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Such moments of insight and empathy limn Darraj’s novel, shining through the sadness and tension of her characters’ lives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Shakespeare’s tragedies give us characters with groundbreaking interiority and self-consciousness, plays that use familiar stories to limn the human condition, but they still end in sword duels and death.
From Slate ● May 9, 2019
Like much of Pittman’s work, they limn the weird and wonderful within an aesthetic of graphic overload.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
I’m a longtime admirer of Blake’s ability to limn fully formed personas with a few scratches — surely no one could capture the wry malevolence of Dahl’s stories as well.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2016
Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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