limn
Example Sentences
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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
To hear a superb rising artist in the role, 24 hours after hearing Ms. Graham limn the stages of a woman’s life, was a poignant juxtaposition, but also a lovely one.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
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
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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Ophelia
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