enlightening
Example Sentences
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Rovere, on the other hand, found the book to be “barren of ideas and imagination,” and “scarcely more interesting or enlightening than the day-by-day newspaper accounts.”
From Salon
But he knows that, if a critic can’t draw enlightening connections, attribution is only a parlor game.
This gives the sheriff opportunities for enlightening visits with his grandfather.
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.
The view from above was enlightening, almost clinical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
