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
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
One wishes he had limned that division with a sharper pen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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