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
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
The jagged horizon was limned with a coronalike glow that flickered and pulsed before my eyes.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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