illumine
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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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing illumine
Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 4
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