Limning

And, for all that, surprisingly charming, particularly in limning the Rolling Stones 'origins, which can be traced, mundanely enough, to a fateful encounter in a train station. ❋ Lou Bayard (2010)

Huneven has a knack for limning the limits of guilt, and as her protagonist takes stock and charge of a too-lived-in life, the outlands of moral ambiguity begin to appear as sunken gardens of familiarity, blooming with humaneness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them. ❋ Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue (2011)

Must have seen the reflections in busted green glass, silver pull tabs limning the salty shoals. ❋ Dennis Mahagin (2011)

Featuring a selection of paintings, watercolors, and works on paper limning memory and found imagery, Mann's works detail the interplay between photographic documentation of reality and the constructed viewpoints of her painted world. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

That fact came to the fore at the premiere screening on Wednesday night of the new documentary, Project Nim, a bildungsroman if you will, limning his birth, maturation, and particularly his remarkable use of language. ❋ Regina Weinreich (2011)

While limning his portrait, Trevor-Roper, almost by the way, provides a marvelous picture of the English imperialist power brokers in China, one of the most impressive of whom was G.E. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2011)

Schiff is especially skilled at limning the social contours of the story. ❋ Marie Arana (2010)

EON has a large cast of characters, and Goodman does a fairly good job of limning each of them; however, I had some problems with the ways they all related to one another. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Kentridge directed the humans on stage with equal skill and wit, limning character traits in the dozens of cameo roles (Claudia Waite as a shrewish wife, Gennady Bezzubenkov as a sadistic doctor, Gordon Gietz in his brief singing moments as the Nose) as well as the principal ones. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)