elucidatory

Example Sentences

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More often than not, Private Empire is a compelling and elucidatory work, though its disciplined, very ExxonMobil-esque adherence to rigor and propriety does make for some moments of reader fatigue.

From BusinessWeek • May 18, 2012

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs Nel proceeded to ply him with elucidatory questions about England.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills

And this is the circumstance that has chiefly weighed with me to offer them in fragmentary form interspersed with elucidatory comment bearing principally upon the occasions that called them forth.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

Her husband’s jerked out sentences, his perturbed and bothered look, as much as her sister’s evident agitation, kept her from putting the elucidatory questions which she longed to ask.

From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills