limn

• The main task of the lamplighter is to go out in the late afternoon and evening to light the bright-limn lamps that line the conduits (highways) of the Empire, and to douse them again in the early morning. —  Bookspotcentral
• Ah! must Thou char the wood ere Thou canst limn with it? —  BrothersJudd Blog
• DuBois, who campaigned heavily for Obama's controversial selection of Evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration, will also need to deftly navigate the Constitutional separations between church and state that limn his new position. —  ModerateVoters.org
• These books limn the entire practice of storytelling -- Eisner was adamant that storytelling be paramount in any graphic treatment -- of graphic representation from ideograms to symbols to picture-stories. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
• Although given a longer running time than needed, Canet doesn't bother to limn most of the characters 'backgrounds, leaving viewers to untangle the web of unclear relationships until near the end when everything is made clear in a chunk of exposition that would have seemed self-parodic even back in Raymond Chandler's day. —  Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews

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