limned
Example Sentences
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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
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
On days like this the Wall shimmered bright as a septon’s crystal, every crack and crevasse limned by sunlight, as frozen rainbows danced and died behind translucent ripples.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
