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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

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

It’s not quite the case that the people Faye meets illumine various facets of Faye herself—she remains a cipher, however much we might want to speculate about her.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2017

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 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

“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

Her voice illumined disjointed memories as it passed them again.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And so on, the twin lights held at various angles illumining the youthful signalman until he stood out like a black statue on a pedestal among the lonely dunes.

From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

One of the number, seeing that we were strangers, and probably guessing at our bewilderment, kindly approached, and, with quiet pride illumining his fine old face, volunteered an explanation of the exciting scene before us.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd

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