enlarge upon
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But opportunities to enlarge upon the tragedy, to infuse the musical with some flashes of real personality, are largely missed.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
Tim would enlarge upon these ideas in “Infidel,” his book about Afghanistan.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2011
The novel rehearses many of the ideas of existentialism that Sartre would later enlarge upon in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2011
But the murderers remained at large and newsgatherers had nothing better to do than enlarge upon Jumbo Crowley and the Canton "Jungle," for local color.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But one must allow his imagination to enlarge upon the scope of Christ's work.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas