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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

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

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

“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

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2017

Our experience is instead being shaped — sculpted — by an evocative if incoherent flow of illumined images skittering by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2016

On shipboard looking back at the walls of Carthage Aeneas saw them illumined by a great fire.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Hope, sprung up once more within them, had been illumining the past few hours.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

His whole appearance was decidedly ordinary, not to say vulgar, and even the unconcealed triumph now illumining his countenance could set no other impress on it.

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

Four years after “Oceana” was published, and “the Rota Club” was still illumining the nation, the commonwealth returned to monarchy by a beck, and without a word!

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

And yet, amid my fetters, there survived still somewhat to uphold me; a presentiment that my chains would break; a feeble ray of light illumining the dreary, and seemingly eternal darkness of my prison.

From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous