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

Foa’s comment illumines a vast gray area in the trigger warning debate.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2016

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

The Bowl shell illumined in a compelling midnight blue during a sunset for the evening’s opening dance was a sight to behold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2022

“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

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

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

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

Perhaps willingness to show that spiritualism has been an illumining force to us, and may be so to others, has place among our motives.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.

From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley