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Like other words from the lexicon of social science and philosophy ( holistic, elitist, liberal, dialectic ), it confuses rather than illuminates if used indiscriminately.
A light illuminates the foreground, but the blackness beyond that pool seems, if anything, blacker.
Most important, because the apparel industry has been one of the first to face the full brunt of the retail revolution, its story illuminates pervasive changes under way in the entire economy.
The airy, bright Baroque church of St-Louis-en-l’Ile illuminates with a golden light its fine collection of Dutch, Flemish, and Italian 16th- and 17th-century art.
But I find it so much harder to dismiss than The Green Mile , which doesn't ever risk making the case for its evil characters' worldview--and so illuminates nothing.