limned
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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 ● Nov. 17, 2025
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
Here, the music that shapes the speech of Smith’s interview subjects is refined and elevated through Roumain’s richly limned and emotionally attentive score.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
The text is matched by vivid, loosely painted watercolors and the animals, limned in brisk black brush lines, exude charm.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
