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

Here, the music that shapes the speech of Smith’s interview subjects is refined and elevated through Roumain’s richly limned and emotionally attentive score.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

There are images in “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision” of curtain hems limned in light, a lamp hanging in otherwise empty space, the edge of a window frame, a horizon line of sofa cushions, distant trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022

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

But still we could see the city before us, though it was limned only by glances of light through windows, guttering signal fires, a glimmer of ovens.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson