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
He limned the telescope’s history, and gave a shout-out to Barbara Mikulski, the former senator of Maryland, who supported the project in 2011 when it was in danger of being canceled.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
That something is more interior, more chaotic and in many ways more disturbing, and it’s exquisitely limned by Field, who doles out information with tensely judicious restraint.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
He instead limned the experience of a Russian Orthodox vigil into an artwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Now the rising moon had limned them in white and silver.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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