limn
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Who better to help us limn out these feelings of disgust, rage and desolation right now?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Such moments of insight and empathy limn Darraj’s novel, shining through the sadness and tension of her characters’ lives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Also stuffed not inelegantly between the microcosmic doings are several larger incidents that limn the bloody and brutal history of the two centuries, including South American totalitarianism, European pogroms and the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020
Telgemeier is not, in a book aimed at third to eighth graders, out to solve the mystery of this rise or limn its sociological roots.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
Cristiana could also limn with skill, painting lifelike birds and flowers and faces I could recognize as those of Gertrude and her ladies.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Ophelia
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