illumine
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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
The fading light of dusk illumines an abandoned building in Terra Amarilla, New Mexico.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 31, 2015
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
His life was illumined by a series of extraordinary spiritual visions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017
In the greatest formal creations of dance theater, the whole box of stage space around the dancers becomes illumined by energy and charged by meter.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2015
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
“Princess,” he said, “the radiance of your presence is as the full moon suddenly illumining the path of a weary traveler, who finds himself on the edge of a morass.”
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
From the ceiling fell a rosy radiance, soft, tender, and faint, vaguely illumining the tapestries with which the walls were draped, upon which were represented rare subjects derived from Boccaccio.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
While illumining my upward path, she seems to beckon me higher and yet higher.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
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