Reality arrives synecdochically, in sharply limned phenomena and events that act as object lessons. |
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Goodrich limned some of her biography into her last known self-portrait, where she fashioned herself as an artist at work at her easel. |
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The black fatality of those words seemed to stand out, stark and clear in the deep night, as though limned with her own life's blood. |
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Boston's weirder early '80s contours, like the snaky lunacy of The Freeze, get limned as well. |
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I'm very worried about how news of this journey will be limned to others, if I don't make it. |
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Where those earlier works limned violence, the works since 2001 are notable for their renunciative, Spartan rigor. |
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Her figures and landscapes are not minutely limned in, as in the miniature tradition, each with a definite attribute and place in the cosmos. |
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It's a delightful book, filled with colorful characters quickly but deftly limned. |
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In less than two seconds the Portal was open, a perfect circle, limned eerily by writhing feathers of blue coronal discharge. |
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The curves of her body are limned in the half-dark by light reflected from the room's reddish carpet. |
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The serene yet bold, contemporary forms are clad in marine plywood panels, limned in metal flashing that glints in the powerful sunlight. |
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Homes and hills, roads and valleys lay on the other side, limned in gold by the clear, late light. |
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An impression came to him, then, of Lily laying fast asleep, limned in moonlight, safe and oblivious. |
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Braunau in 1889 has medieval fortifications and broken Gothic arches limned with moonlight. |
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What we have is clearly limned like the work of a master lapidary. |
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A wanderer in the vast Nevada desert comes upon yet another rock formation, a mass of craggy geometric shapes limned in the gentle hues that express eons of sedimentation. |
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The career limned in Four Trials shows a dedication to helping others, a deep reservoir of empathy for the unfortunate, and a passion for justice. |
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The rural setting mattered, I think, for my father in each case because it limned that transition more evocatively than might have been otherwise possible. |
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The still-lifes vary from bright to crepuscular in tone, from crisply limned to almost illegibly blurred, and, in texture, from creamy to arid. |
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Ivey's gradual meltdown from confident banterer to disheveled mutterer is valiantly limned, layered with dozens of revealing looks signaling fear and frustration. |
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This is the landscape Classical, with figures that has stirred romantics since it was first limned by 17th-century etchers and sketchers. |
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On August 5th, a report in a newspaper close to the security establishment limned the likely case against them. |
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He invented as well as limned his stories and, in the process, created a grand, rolling fiction of Americanness. |
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All of this goes into the more recent nudes, a fabulous composition of brickwork titanesses limned in starry outlines surrounded by the appurtenances of beauty. |
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Unlike most of the nebulas that populate the universe, these clouds are limned by arcs or tings and bathed in the blue light emitted by helium ions. |
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As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring. |
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Why I even remember when Bill Frist was limned as some kind of great sage. |
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The effects serve sharply limned figures whose sculptural roundedness, warm flesh, splendid raiment, and distinctive personalities leap to the eye. |
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It looks so pale and withdrawn from us, this almost cursorily limned, dully functional room of sorts, quite crude and almost childlike in its fashioning. |
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Exceptionally beautiful and moving are the colored engravings of tomb and temple murals and inscriptions, not yet understood but limned with fidelity that borders on mediumistic possession. |
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The world we inhabit is a process within which the traces of divine causality can be limned in theophanies that have their own logic and order. |
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