illumine

“She is the one of course that I am trying to get. … To mark her off, to describe, to illumine, to celebrate, to get rid of her.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024

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

He was holding the lamp high up, so as to illumine the whole room, and in the warm dim light the place looked curiously inviting.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

“Marianne Faithfull’s ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’ is a gem; her luminous words light up the book’s portraits and events in the way ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’ is illumined by Renoir’s colors.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2017

Lightning cracked the sky, and a wash of white color illumined the face looking in at old LaFarge there in the doorway.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Then Jack came out of hiding, and strode forward without further qualms, for the flame was lighting the cigar and illumining the face of his friend Dalrymple.

From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

She raised her eyes to his, and, once more, saw that bright illumining, more radiant now and more significant than she had ever seen it yet.

From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

From the low roof swung a lantern, casting strange shadows around the open space, faintly illumining Menotah's happy face, and at times the rugged features of her companion.

From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham