enlighten
Example Sentences
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Throughout, she and Ms. Halvorson create delightful sonic contrasts; it’s like seeing someone wear fabrics and patterns that should clash but instead work together to enlightening effect.
When you get a varied body of work, it can enlighten your own life in a way, and that’s a great feeling.
The view from above was enlightening, almost clinical.
Our critic said “There is much an average American doesn’t remember or wasn’t ever taught about the Revolution, and the Burns-Botstein-Schmidt review is certainly enlightening.”
Because it was framed as compassionate and enlightened, questioning it felt taboo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
