limned
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Michael Spyres’s clarion tenor and Brian Mulligan’s warm baritone limned the Emperor and Barak; Nina Stemme’s register leaps brought the Nurse to ferocious life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
As such, the music of “Soundwalk” feels limned from a blend of intention and intuition.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2020
Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—the word was limned into the ears of the thousands who stood watching and applauding.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020
But still we could see the city before us, though it was limned only by glances of light through windows, guttering signal fires, a glimmer of ovens.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
