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limn

[lim] / lɪm /
VERB
depict
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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

Shakespeare’s tragedies give us characters with groundbreaking interiority and self-consciousness, plays that use familiar stories to limn the human condition, but they still end in sword duels and death.

From Slate ● May 9, 2019

My desire to orient the reader at all is itself a narrative choice, and one that not all writers who’ve attempted to limn the psychedelic experience regard as fair play.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018

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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