limned
Example Sentences
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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
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
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021
The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
