illuminating

Example Sentences

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It was as if a sunbeam was passing across the page and illuminating the words beneath.

From Literature

It’s a text that can be quite illuminating.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Cannadine, a distinguished British historian, does not go in for color or fun or illuminating anecdotes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.

From Los Angeles Times

This may put him on the outs with his colleagues in the academy, but it has made for a riveting and richly illuminating book.

From The Wall Street Journal