illumine

The non-narrative videos, which may well come to be regarded as the Sistine Chapel of video art, projected onto epic screens above the orchestra and singers, serve not to illumine Wagner’s drama but his intent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Those “if”s, those two counterfactuals, help illumine the precise borders of the crime.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2019

But Ms. Fairchild’s social media post guides us to the gold at its heart: Ms. McBride brings “nuggets of wisdom” about what Balanchine said that illumine a ballet that Ms. Fairchild has already loved dancing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

It’s not quite the case that the people Faye meets illumine various facets of Faye herself—she remains a cipher, however much we might want to speculate about her.

From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2017

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

The fading light of dusk illumines an abandoned building in Terra Amarilla, New Mexico.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 31, 2015

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

Their letters — enraptured and captivating but not written for literate sharing — were further illumined in Puts’ score, emphasizing the obvious with grandeur and sentiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

“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

The library was like a tomb, illumined from within by a chill fluorescent light that, by contrast, made the afternoon seem colder and grayer than it was.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Most writers were unable to see life whole, and unsatisfied with illumining only fragments of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he stood during perhaps a second, a small lamp upon the tray before him illumining his handsome figure; then his eyes, glancing up, met the reflection of mine in the mirror.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman

Direct me to the heavenly life, enlightening, illumining, and strengthening me.

From Orthodox Daily Prayers by Anonymous

From where I sat I could catch a glimpse of my darling's pretty figure at the organ in the chancel, the light from the two candles on either side illumining her face.

From The Kidnapped President by Guy Newell Boothby

She raised her eyes to his, and, once more, saw that bright illumining, more radiant now and more significant than she had ever seen it yet.

From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner