illumine
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“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
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
One 1721 image here shows a providential eye peering through the clouds of a storm, beams of light streaming downward to illumine an embattled ship.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2010
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
“Every sentence has a graceful weight and meter and is illumined by a subtle intelligence that makes his descriptions arresting but never showy.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
For the Native American legend about why the bear has no tail, a sequence of adroit drawings further illumined Thompson’s lively narration and the characterful musical sound effects in Hitomi Oba’s score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
His life was illumined by a series of extraordinary spiritual visions.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017
Before him now lay the path, illumined; and when he turned, he saw that the world that had been darkness was returned to him, magnificent in deep blues and grays and black, streaked gold.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Direct me to the heavenly life, enlightening, illumining, and strengthening me.
From Orthodox Daily Prayers by Anonymous
Presently the sun rose above the eastern mountains, its first rays illumining distant high-up villages which are invisible later in the day.
From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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 Hornibrook, Isabel
These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.
From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher
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