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

Haring limned his oval head, the topknot above a receding hairline, a pair of prominent ears and eyes staring out from behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Here, the music that shapes the speech of Smith’s interview subjects is refined and elevated through Roumain’s richly limned and emotionally attentive score.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—the word was limned into the ears of the thousands who stood watching and applauding.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo