| 单词 | limning |
| 例句 | So here, in limning her portrait, must I paint her as she was, a girl of little more than my own age now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This adrenalin-stoking series is addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes — and for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with their cars. Furious 6: Faster, Crazycars! Thrill Thrill! 2013-05-20T16:47:36Z Akhtar is a realist, not a sentimentalist, and he is not prone to oversimplification in limning the differences between strands of American influence and strands of Pakistani Muslim response. Review | ‘Invisible Hand’ a taut political thriller worthy of ‘Homeland’ watchers 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z A winner at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the film features intense conflict and also a full-blown musical number, staged by the corporation, limning the virtues of efficiency. The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and More in August 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z This would surely reveal something about slavery in New York, even if limning its brutal nature might seem crude. Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center: A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life 2010-02-25T22:31:00Z The painter depicted himself as a small, dapper figure, in the lower margin of the picture, looking out at the viewer, not at the landscape he is supposedly limning. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Whether writing about a brief recipe pamphlet or a dense guide to household management, Tipton-Martin gives each book a generous page or more of comment, limning the biographies of the authors and celebrating their accomplishments. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Barker is remarkably magnetic, limning Charlie’s unease and yearning in a performance that allows him to be funny and sympathetic but never pitiful. Review: In ‘Agnes,’ Familial Ties Bound So Tightly They Fray 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, “The Son” is so ham-handed, so hysterically pitched and manufactured, that’s it’s difficult to believe it emanated from the same hand that brought such skill to limning the shifting cognitive realities in “The Father.” Review | ‘The Son’ will make you squirm, for all the wrong reasons 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It "may not demand universal political participation, but it cannot survive the people's wholesale ignorance of the forces shaping their lives and limning their future." Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Artists, too, are increasingly revisiting and limning history, giving voice to lives that always existed but were rarely heard. T’s Holiday Issue: Past Perfect 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Savage limnings of artists or craftspeople who have the temerity to offer their goods or services for profit or appreciation offers a limited horizon for a journalist even in our age of casual cruelty. Best of Journalism 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z This is a big and complicated book, but it’s a dazzling work of reportage, and Coll’s gift for limning character lightens the load. Favorite nonfiction from 2018, from Princess Margaret to a Silicon Valley scammer 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z In the handful of years following his letter to Crick, Woese developed a unique methodology for this task, limning life’s history by way of the “internal fossil record” within living cells. The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “So were Warhol’s photo silk-screening and Lichtenstein’s limning of panels from comic strips. The goal in all cases was to fuse painting aesthetics with the semiotics of media-drenched contemporary reality.” James Rosenquist, Pop Art pioneer, dies at 83 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z He is also eloquent on the hermeneutics of scientific language, limning its oblique relationship to other modes of description. When we unlock the secrets of our genes, what do we do with that knowledge? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Last fall, in a series of policy speeches, Clinton began limning distinctions with the president on national security. How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z This adrenaline-stoking series is addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes — and for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with their cars. The Top 10 Best Movies of 2013 2013-12-05T08:05:25Z Despite the fact that it will almost certainly win the upcoming general election, the LDP, too, isn’t limning the popular mood, with little more than 20% support. A Nervous Japan Swings Right Ahead of Elections 2012-12-14T21:35:33Z Newspaper reporters, paragraphers, and magazine writers have never wearied of limning her life, recounting even the smallest incidents and making of her a conspicuous figure in the literature of the Northwest. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z We are told by Gilpin that Charles "had singular skill in limning, and was a good judge of pictures." English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z But the heart—the heart of the good man whose hand performed these curious and laborious limnings—should stamp a precious value on the book that contained them. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z If I may hope that I have made a study, from which you will catch a passing suggestion for future use, in the limning of your own life-portraits, it is well. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z He hath a rare gift of limning; and has, besides, the advantage of deare Erasmus his recommendation, for whom he hath alreddie painted our likenesses, but I think he has made us very ugly. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The one is delicate and exquisite limning; the other, gross daubing:—the one faithfully represents; the other monstrously caricatures. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z In other weeks, she combined Shel Silverstein and Habakkuk, Thomas Merton and Nikki Giovanni, all by way of limning such concepts as belief, gratitude, courage, choices. On Religion: For Psychiatric Patients, Faith, Hope and a Writing Workshop 2011-08-27T00:56:29Z We were not far removed from that period when young ladies employed their leisure by limning lachrymose females weeping over urns. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z While he was limning Islam through the contest, the organizers and participants were expressing their attitudes toward the West to the documentary’s creative team. On Religion: A War-Hardened Filmmaker Delves Into Islam 2011-07-30T00:30:58Z It ran along the wires, limning each stay luridly. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Perhaps to see shapes of light, aerial limning, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But his captors, with ready rifles, stood in close range around him, and behind him burned the log, its murky smoke and lapping blaze limning weirdly the beast's shaggy bulk, against the white forest. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Long usage had made them almost a necessity to her skin; but the same had taught her skill in their limning. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Tell me not that I am painting a picture, limning the creature of a distorted fancy. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z So Dr. Sandage, a fresh Ph.D. at 27, inherited the job of limning the fate of the universe. Allan Sandage, Astronomer, Dies at 84; Charted Cosmos?s Age and Expansion 2010-11-18T07:20:00Z And then they looked up to the portrait gazing down at them from the chimneypiece, seeming almost to smile sadly upon them as they watched the skilful limning of the beloved features. By Birth a Lady The limning of years could not be effaced by the desecrating power of mortified vanity. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. Her chariot of a snail's fine shell, Which for the colors did excel,— The fair Queen Mab becoming well, So lively was the limning; The seat the soft wool of the bee. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I shall be a Painter limning Pictures that shall never fade; Round the scenes I have portrayed Shall be gathered gazing throngs: Mine shall be a Titian’s palette! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 But to the limning of that sketch all the past of Portugal was necessary, though then it emerged for the first time from the Unconscious to the Conscious. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe From the very beginning of one's task in limning bud and blossom, we see them richer in grace and loveliness than ever before. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Standing thus, with the street light limning every unnatural angle of his twisted body and every queer abnormality of his huge features, he looked almost repulsive. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 His best effects are obtained by quiet satire conveyed in the gradual limning of his characters, and by occasional incidents of which each is allowed to give its own lesson to the reader. Australian Writers For his face, late blue with rage, was now black with a limning of the sewer liquid. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley We commend its graphic limnings and stirring incidents to the admiration of our readers. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 And he had, the aforesaid Philemon, yet other limnings of cunning craftsmanship in his closet. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country Such is a hasty limning of the personal outlines of the first journalist in Paris, the chief editor of the chief organ of the democracy in Europe, Armand Marrast, of "Le National." Edmond Dantès What cares he for worldly splendour, when in dreams he can summon up a fairy-land so gorgeous that in limning it even his own rainbow-dyed pencil fails? Olive A Novel Nevertheless, slight though it is, the limning all through has touches of the most comic suggestiveness. Charles Dickens as a Reader With a quick eye to all the pictorial beauties, so to speak, of Bunyan’s matchless limnings, Mr. Cheever adds a thorough knowledge and appreciation of all their high spiritual teachings. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Indeed, we can with truth say, that in our deliberate judgment, the ‘Christmas Carol’ is the most striking, the most picturesque, the most truthful, of all the limnings which have proceeded from its author’s pen. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 He could smell Krishna, cigarettes and booze and club and sweat, see the gold flecks in his dark irises, the red limning of his eyelids. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Banneker started, at this ready application of his words to the problem which was already outlining itself by small, daily limnings in his mind. Success A Novel Sometimes the clouds take the form of most airily-delicate brown crape, "hatchelled" on the sky in minute lines and limnings. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 In his mania for acquirements that should be entirely useless he had gained some skill in illumination, or limning as he preferred to call it, always choosing the obscurer word as the obscurer arts. The Hill of Dreams In the time of Elizabeth the largest park in Warwickshire, and one of the very finest in England, was that which surrounded the castle rendered classic ground by the immortal limning of Scott—Kenilworth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 On comparing these instructions with those of the sixteenth century, one is struck with the emphasis they lay upon drawing and "limning." English Travellers of the Renaissance In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The afternoon sun fell aslant the black oak parquetry where sat her Grace of Ellswold, Lady Constance and Mistress Penwick, engaged with limning and embroidery. Mistress Penwick Upon a mound of Hortensias rests the image of the Queen Hortense, and, in the far distance, like the limnings of a half-forgotten dream, are seen the towers and domes of Paris. Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era He hath a rare gift of limning; but in our likeness, which he hath painted for deare Erasmus, I think he has made us very ugly. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Hilarius crimsoned, he was weary of limning ever with blue and gold, he faltered. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The decorative painter, whose pencil runs so freely in limning these half-human processions of outlined fauns and wood-nymphs, is asked at last to paint an easel picture. Robert Louis Stevenson Already certain limnings, more or less grotesque, more or less fading and watery, have appear'd. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy It was almost as though something tangible were limning the man's soul upon his face. Darkness and Dawn Even his shop girls, in the limning of whom he did his best work, are not really individuals; rather are they types, symbols. The Best American Humorous Short Stories Besides, you bound us to your praise With many strong indentures By limning Mr. Briggs, his ways And countless misadventures. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 29, 1917 How could it be otherwise after the limning of such a scene as that described in Henry IV? Inns and Taverns of Old London "I have seen strange sights, Mother, mighty limnings worthy of thy magic, but how know I that they are more than vapours of thine own brain cast upon yonder fire to deceive and mock us?" Ayesha, the Return of She Emma forgave the insistance on a certain bluntness of the nose, in consideration of the fond limning of his honest and expressive eyes, and the 'light on his temples,' which they had noticed together. Diana of the Crossways — Complete Emma forgave the: insistance on a certain bluntness of the nose, in consideration of the fond limning of his honest and expressive eyes, and the 'light on his temples,' which they had noticed together. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 Behold the frost-work on the pane,—the wild, fantastic limnings and etchings! can there be any doubt but this subtle agent has been here? Winter Sunshine One fact may be set down, as limning some true figure of him on the landscape of those years in that peculiar country. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields But the canvas of my imagination, when it came to limning the Man About Town, was blank. The Four Million It gleamed, dark and oily, limning a Scots Grey who had mounted a wounded Russian on his horse, and was bringing him back prisoner from the Balaclava charge. Five Tales |
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