limned
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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
There are images in “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision” of curtain hems limned in light, a lamp hanging in otherwise empty space, the edge of a window frame, a horizon line of sofa cushions, distant trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
He limned the telescope’s history, and gave a shout-out to Barbara Mikulski, the former senator of Maryland, who supported the project in 2011 when it was in danger of being canceled.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
One wishes he had limned that division with a sharper pen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
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
