limned

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The latter film is one of Keaton’s lesser-known but still brilliantly limned stone-faced satires, in this case involving cowpokes and its star’s tender feelings for a milk cow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

That something is more interior, more chaotic and in many ways more disturbing, and it’s exquisitely limned by Field, who doles out information with tensely judicious restraint.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022

He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021

Occasionally a more human presence is limned, intimating an elaborately costumed Mardi Gras celebrant.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020

Now the rising moon had limned them in white and silver.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin