Example sentences for: illuminating

How can you use “illuminating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here a historical analogy is illuminating: Only a decade ago, after all, America was frantic about another mysterious, ominous Asian power that was not quite friend, not quite enemy.

  • García Márquez earns praise for his reporting, which demonstrates, says Robert Stone in the New York Times Book Review , "a quick eye for the illuminating detail and a capacity for assembling fact."

  • That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.

  • One other illuminating sequence--Burns' presentation of Jefferson's and Hamilton's clashing ideas of America.

  • Only Linda Nochlin (whose contribution to the catalog of the Chicago show is an overview of Impressionist portraiture with almost nothing on Renoir) used the Art in America occasion to say something serious and illuminating about Renoir's art, noting that Renoir's men--in such idylls as Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) and Dance at Bougival (1883) (both great paintings, which blur the distinction between portrait and genre painting, are in the Chicago show)--offer a masculine ideal counter to the male predators and businessmen of Degas and Manet: "Tough and tender at once," these men "are luscious, peachy-skinned and downy-haired, with heavy-lidded eyes and yearning red mouths."


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