enlarge upon
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But opportunities to enlarge upon the tragedy, to infuse the musical with some flashes of real personality, are largely missed.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Tim would enlarge upon these ideas in “Infidel,” his book about Afghanistan.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2011
The novel rehearses many of the ideas of existentialism that Sartre would later enlarge upon in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
But clever old Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, gave his adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt by putting any of the other eye-witness defendants on the stand.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shall not enlarge upon the acute discomfort of it.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
