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limn

[lim] / lɪm /
VERB
depict
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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

In cinematic detail, the author limns the visceral intensity of a world gone mad.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Who better to limn out disgust and desolation now?

From Los Angeles Times

Who better to help us limn out these feelings of disgust, rage and desolation right now?

From Los Angeles Times