She liked mornings, and dawn in the desert was something special, with everything so clear and crisply outlined.

Others are counterintuitive: his own flat, crisply outlined pictures could lead you to assume he prefers the cool clarity of a David or Ingres.

The mountai peaks were crisply outlined against a blue background that seemed too uniformly perfect to be quite real.

It was fresh, so very fresh that even as she watched the crisply outlined edge of one hoofprint, it collapsed and slid in upon itself in a trickle of loose sand.

On a clear day like today, the Citadel's forcefield gates were visible as crisply outlined panels of gray fog.

Each leaf is crisply outlined and shaded; each breast points its literal nipple at you like an idiot's eye; each feather in Cupid's wing is quiveringly palpable.

At best, as in "La Nappe Rouge" from 1931, overlapping planes of dry, muted color crisply outlined by loopy lines and straight architectural lines, add up to a frescolike monumentality.

Besides Sorolla, its crisply outlined figures call to mind the style of painters in Brittany, where she also studied.

The two crimson-winged angels are by Morris's chief designer, Edward Burne-Jones; the foliage they tread on, crisply outlined as in a medieval tapestry, is pure Morris.

Ms. Ruyter makes flat, crisply outlined, hallucinogenically colored paintings of things like the view between two houses or a luxuriantly textured tree branch.