limn
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Who better to limn out disgust and desolation now?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
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
“She used beautiful words to limn grief and loss,” Professor Bell said in her post on the Barnard site.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
For Jentleson and his colleagues, part of the work of the Moscow Project is to limn a possible conspiracy without falling into conspiracy theorizing.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2017
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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