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

But Ms. Fairchild’s social media post guides us to the gold at its heart: Ms. McBride brings “nuggets of wisdom” about what Balanchine said that illumine a ballet that Ms. Fairchild has already loved dancing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

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

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2014

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 backdrop is brightly illumined screens that hurt your eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The fog of war obscures even the most illumined conscience.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

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

When he touched it to the edge a bright red seam crawled up the side, then licked suddenly over the whole thing; the words were illumined for a moment before they curled and darkened.

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

So he stood during perhaps a second, a small lamp upon the tray before him illumining his handsome figure; then his eyes, glancing up, met the reflection of mine in the mirror.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman

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

The sun was hardly illumining the tops of the eastern mountains of the valley when I awoke invigorated, and led my horse out into the grass again.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

The king rose up, with a broad smile illumining his wrinkled face, and said, with his glass to his lips, "Capt'n, and Capt'n's friend, I glad to see you."

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood