What is "accenting"

Usage examples of "accenting".

Father Sun slid below the jagged horizon to the southwest, darkness accenting the hollowness of the People's cheeks and eyes.

Chapter 5 Crimson light flickered over the hide walls of the shelter, accenting the fear and longing in people's eyes.

Chapter 16 Ash-colored, rays streamed down through the ice cave's narrow opening, accenting the sallow cheeks of the People pressed close together inside.

His cheeks had grown hollow, his hair hanging long on either side of his face, accenting his half-starved look.

Wavering shadows crept over her collection of skulls, accenting the hollow eye sockets and glistening fangs of wolves and bears.

Age spots dotted his broad face, accenting the deeply graven, lines of his patriarchal features.

She'd learned the trick of accenting her best features from her mother.

Dix added, spinning the drumsticks between his fingers in an elaborate display of showmanship before bringing them down on the snare to snap off a rim shot, accenting his words.

The handcuff was still attached to one of her wrists and the shiny metal caught the light in the room and cast off a series of quick reflections, accenting her words.

My father always said it was gamboling debts, and I mean gambol,’ he said, accenting the last syllable.

Ia," and Kathleen repeated it, accenting no syllable and poking the child lightly in the chest.

The halo of herself, sun-bleached hair, the garlands Olav had put around her neck the morning they left Angel, accenting the colour of the lovely gown of Teradia's making materialized.

Her hair was light brown, with lynxlike grey tufts at the ears and in a diamond pattern at the crown, extending into the fringe of hair accenting earnest brown eyes.

Shadow darkened his beard area, accenting high cheekbones and the clear lines of his mouth.

Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face.