limned
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Riccardo Frizza’s fluid conducting drew out the score’s long bel canto lines and limned its propulsive rhythmic structure, and his flexible support of the singers made every aria and ensemble breathe and soar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
The text is matched by vivid, loosely painted watercolors and the animals, limned in brisk black brush lines, exude charm.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
Cox coaxed a marvelous stereo glow from the strings throughout, and Grimaud moved freely between hard-hammered accents and exquisitely limned lightness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
The jagged horizon was limned with a coronalike glow that flickered and pulsed before my eyes.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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