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Reality arrives synecdochically, in sharply limned phenomena and events that act as object lessons.
Goodrich limned some of her biography into her last known self-portrait, where she fashioned herself as an artist at work at her easel.
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.
Boston's weirder early '80s contours, like the snaky lunacy of The Freeze, get limned as well.
I'm very worried about how news of this journey will be limned to others, if I don't make it.
Where those earlier works limned violence, the works since 2001 are notable for their renunciative, Spartan rigor.
Her figures and landscapes are not minutely limned in, as in the miniature tradition, each with a definite attribute and place in the cosmos.
It's a delightful book, filled with colorful characters quickly but deftly limned.
In less than two seconds the Portal was open, a perfect circle, limned eerily by writhing feathers of blue coronal discharge.
The curves of her body are limned in the half-dark by light reflected from the room's reddish carpet.
The serene yet bold, contemporary forms are clad in marine plywood panels, limned in metal flashing that glints in the powerful sunlight.
Homes and hills, roads and valleys lay on the other side, limned in gold by the clear, late light.
An impression came to him, then, of Lily laying fast asleep, limned in moonlight, safe and oblivious.
Braunau in 1889 has medieval fortifications and broken Gothic arches limned with moonlight.
What we have is clearly limned like the work of a master lapidary.
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.
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.
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.
The still-lifes vary from bright to crepuscular in tone, from crisply limned to almost illegibly blurred, and, in texture, from creamy to arid.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
But the words of Professor Maniel were limned on the retina of his brain in letters of fire.
There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.
The flashlight limned a ghastly, obscenely fat body and a long tapering tail.
And contrarily it was the same familiarity which limned his faults so clearly and perhaps exaggerated them.
The blast expired and there, plainly limned upon the observation plates, was the Nevian speedster.
We have plenty of portraits of him left, limned both with pen and with brush.
Every feature of the old captains face was limned with grief.
Its fiery parabola was limned against the sky toward the east.
This was an apparition too holy to be limned in artificial light.
There was one only of the group who had not been limned by Miss Rothesay.
It was the Colonel beyond doubt, and Margaret had limned him to the life.
The man with a few simple strokes of the brush had limned me his portrait.
Some of the first, crudely limned anatomical diagrams are contained here, as well as gorgeously rendered examples of modern high-powered microscopy.
Exactly which state is being identified as rogue is unclear, but the red lines violently disrupt and obliterate the more delicately limned adjacent zones.
Limned against the starlight were the wings of a plane, still standing where it had landed beside the sand-trap.
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