illuminating
Example Sentences
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This elliptical approach is in part its strength, subtly illuminating how trying to move past one tragedy may bring a family to the precipice of another.
It was as if a sunbeam was passing across the page and illuminating the words beneath.
From Literature
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It’s a text that can be quite illuminating.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Cannadine, a distinguished British historian, does not go in for color or fun or illuminating anecdotes.
Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.
From Los Angeles Times
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