limned
Example Sentences
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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
Cox coaxed a marvelous stereo glow from the strings throughout, and Grimaud moved freely between hard-hammered accents and exquisitely limned lightness.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Liberty, Liberty, Liberty—the word was limned into the ears of the thousands who stood watching and applauding.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
