illumine

The non-narrative videos, which may well come to be regarded as the Sistine Chapel of video art, projected onto epic screens above the orchestra and singers, serve not to illumine Wagner’s drama but his intent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Those “if”s, those two counterfactuals, help illumine the precise borders of the crime.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2019

Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2014

One 1721 image here shows a providential eye peering through the clouds of a storm, beams of light streaming downward to illumine an embattled ship.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2010

A sun that was to illumine a world to come.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

It illumines the lives of several remarkable people who made the changes happen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

This “Frankenstein” illumines the ultimate “outcast” and could also be interpreted as a metaphysical corollary to Sharon’s “Flute.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

In the case of Arp, a revolutionary figure in modernism’s movements of abstraction, Dadaism and Surrealism, this complementary group show illumines just how foundational and remarkably inimitable Arp’s abstractions really are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2018

Foa’s comment illumines a vast gray area in the trigger warning debate.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2016

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The fog of war obscures even the most illumined conscience.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

There are pauses for out-of-body musing throughout, but the short third part, “Invisible Light,” is where Alexandra’s illumined soul and the weary soles of her feet become one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2019

All are illumined by a searching intelligence and a willingness to test the boundaries of the short story form.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018

His life was illumined by a series of extraordinary spiritual visions.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017

I was still arguing with her when the taxi pulled up at the curb, long slants of rain illumined in the headlights and the tires throwing up low fans of water.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The moon waxed slowly in brightness, illumining the two figures.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

He rose slowly and stiffly to his knees and looked down the ridge to where the rays of the sun now were illumining the snow-covered bottom of the valley below.

From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen

Mr Morgan read the letter in the privacy of his office, smiled, re-read it, examined it from all angles, and promptly proceeded to answer it, a light of satisfaction illumining his features as he wrote.

From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young

Hope, sprung up once more within them, had been illumining the past few hours.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood