illustrate
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Meanwhile, the Lucas idea confuses art culture with popular culture, bizarrely touting illustrated storytelling as “the peoples’ art.”
From Los Angeles Times
Our critic said “What the play most painfully illustrates is that for women like these—impoverished or politically oppressed—appealing options are nonexistent.”
This inverse correlation is illustrated in the chart above.
From MarketWatch
“They illustrate jazz modernity as a fusion of time, people, and place,” Mr. Gennari says of these images, perhaps inadvertently making the case for a glossy, large-format edition of his book.
Miles’ case underscores a stark contradiction: people whose ancestors inhabited this land for millennia can still be treated as outsiders, illustrating how legal recognition and federal enforcement often fail to align in practice.
From Salon
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