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limn

[lim] / lɪm /
VERB
depict
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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

Its members have included a wide spectrum of people whose life stories limn the Horatio Alger credo, although they have trended conservative.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

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

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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