I think your use of the word "limned" is profound. From Wordnik.com. [Some old lover's ghost] Reference
The portraits are limned with master hand; and Celestine. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
The set jaw relaxed; the straight limned lips weakened. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
A nice long-limned melody over a very unusual accompaniment. From Wordnik.com. [Morricone Recognized for Impact on Movie Music] Reference
“You have limned a frightful picture, reverend sir,” said. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
It is a tale of strife, limned by high lights and some shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
It did not occur to him that he stood limned against the cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Just a whisper of pale lilac light limned a boulder momentarily. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
The figure in the doorway, limned against unending night, smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Briefly, the outlines of a centaur stood limned amidst those stars. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
"It is indeed a fine performance, and right bravely limned," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The cloud covered the moon, and limned the edges with swirls of argent. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
The essence of command was limned in every roll of his sailor's swagger. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
He was as crisp as a new dollar bill — as clean, sharp, firmly limned. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
The light caught at her hair and limned the porcelain delicacy of her skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Warmoth, the villain, whose protraiture has been limned by a masterly hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
And then that other portrait was limned with equal accuracy before his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
In the lingo of self-evaluation, weaknesses should be limned as strengths in drag. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Evaluations Prompt Professionals' Tall Tales] Reference
Visions limned on rock and sand had been the more precious for their impermanence. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
But Trader Monthly did, and it limned the trader so that all might behold his glory. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street Mocked American Values] Reference
“No,” he said, rubbing his palm down the red-limned curve of her shoulder and arm. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
Every cloud that floats has all of its fleecy loveliness limned with a radiant clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
His sketches of actors, male and female, native and foreign, are limned with an artistical hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Pompilard, a capitally drawn figure, many New-Yorkers will recognize an original, faithfully limned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Their tale of woe is just one illustrating the ills of capitalism limned in this typical Moore satire. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Weinreich: Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story] Reference
They were dream‑shapes limned in gold, glowing cutouts rising as if in offering to the mistshrouded sun. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
The print revealed an expert's hand in composition and cropping, with the girl limned in sunny backlighting. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
There stood the son of Siegmund in such dainty grace, as he were limned on parchment by skillful master's art. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Because the muscle in the muscle car is not limned within the frame and chassis, its owner contributes some of the muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Dorchen: Getting Rid of Petroleum Will Require Major Surgery] Reference
It was limned by Master Robert Tielhard himself, before he died; it is a crime now, to duplicate it for any but an anguissette. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
In the faint moonlight that struggled through the clouds, the towers and spires of old Bannister were limned against the sky-line. From Wordnik.com. [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference
Shifting, he leaned against the window frame so he could better see her face limned by the faint moonlight flowing through the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
A blow comes, such as the present war, and seems to shatter the whole picture which so many hands have limned and so many eyes admired. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Limbaugh loves all the attention he's getting ever since Obama called him out, and he's game to play his part in the above limned drama. From Wordnik.com. [Beau Friedlander: Obama: Rushing to Victory] Reference
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