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

The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

It illumines the lives of several remarkable people who made the changes happen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

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

His life was illumined by a series of extraordinary spiritual visions.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017

From there, the musical journey was one of darkness illumined when an hour later all forces proclaimed Alles with a magnificence never before reached in music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

The library was like a tomb, illumined from within by a chill fluorescent light that, by contrast, made the afternoon seem colder and grayer than it was.

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

May sat spell-bound; looking at him fixedly, and with that dawn of clear-sightedness rapidly illumining many things, to her unspeakable consternation.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

“Princess,” he said, “the radiance of your presence is as the full moon suddenly illumining the path of a weary traveler, who finds himself on the edge of a morass.”

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy

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

In a moment it would have all been poured forth in broken, incoherent phrase, the sum of Micky's illumining dream and his desire.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman