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Examples of limn
limn
Sappho's gorgeous, gem-like poems limn their subjects in gold.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kudos to Scudera for not having his players limn their roles as cardboard parodies of Coward characters.
From the delawareonline.com
Consider a few statistics that limn the people's lives.
From the sfgate.com
To remedy the situation, his highness had a court painter limn pictures of the girls, then present the likenesses to him.
From the time.com
In them, audiences can watch women negotiate and sometimes subvert the forces that limn and limit their choices.
From the washingtonpost.com
Despite their confident use of statistics, graphs and maps to limn the future, city planners have no claim on prescience.
From the time.com
In the decades since, politicians and historians have struggled to limn the secrets of the Reagan persona, without much success.
From the time.com
There's nothing I could say that would limn his character anything like as vividly as he has contrived to do in a few posts.
From the markvernon.com
The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin.
From the time.com
- Delineate: trace the shape of
- Portray: make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
- (limning) delineation: a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
- An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations. ...
- To draw or paint; delineate; To describe; To illuminate, as a manuscript
- (limned) described or represented in a lifelike manner
- (Limning) An archaic term meaning to draw or paint. Used particularly with reference to manuscript illumination and miniature painting,
- Or limni- or limno- [from Greek limne shallow lake] Freshwater lakes/ponds (limnology, limnoplankton).
