illumine
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“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
Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2014
One 1721 image here shows a providential eye peering through the clouds of a storm, beams of light streaming downward to illumine an embattled ship.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2010
A sun that was to illumine a world to come.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
It illumines the lives of several remarkable people who made the changes happen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022
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
“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
From there, the musical journey was one of darkness illumined when an hour later all forces proclaimed Alles with a magnificence never before reached in music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
May sat spell-bound; looking at him fixedly, and with that dawn of clear-sightedness rapidly illumining many things, to her unspeakable consternation.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Mr Morgan read the letter in the privacy of his office, smiled, re-read it, examined it from all angles, and promptly proceeded to answer it, a light of satisfaction illumining his features as he wrote.
From Imprudence by F.E. Mills Young
Hope, sprung up once more within them, had been illumining the past few hours.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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
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