Verb (used with object) : A smile illuminated her face. From Dictionary.com.
For an illuminatingly close analysis of this movie, see Loehlin. close window. From Wordnik.com. [Notes, "Critical Presentism", Romanticism and Contemporary Culture] Reference
Nobody, I think, has written more illuminatingly about his narrow but important subject: 'attitudes of white South Africa.'. From Wordnik.com. [Beware of Melancholy] Reference
The rest of the programme was well thought out, with the Górecki illuminatingly set alongside premieres by Glass and Mark-Anthony Turnage. From Wordnik.com. [LPO/Alsop; Varèse 360°] Reference
Motherhood, for instance, never gets a look in, as the ability to care joyfully and illuminatingly for others is viewed as an impossibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountainhead « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Mr. DEHAN at least has proved himself far too clever for me to tolerate this threadbare theme, not very illuminatingly treated, from his valuable pen. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
A few hours later, banded together with my brother and my sister-in-law, I arrived at the 9: 30 Club at 8: 30pm which proved to be illuminatingly too early. From Wordnik.com. [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Tinariwen Simplicity in the District of Complexity] Reference
One quaint expedition, grotesque and childish and yet an augury of greater things to come, flits very illuminatingly across the dreadful record of these war years. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
While the book delivers an interesting, candid, fully dimensional account of her friendship with Marilyn Monroe, I found it more rushed, less illuminatingly written than BITTERSWEET. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-14] Reference
Cold War Kids have built their reputation on spiky, loose-limbed music, illuminatingly detailed lyrics and a voice-might-crack-at-any-second singer who could sound simultaneously tender and unhinged. From Wordnik.com. [Album review of Cold War Kids' 'Mine Is Yours'] Reference
As she spoke she knew illuminatingly that for her it was true, that, given the choice all those years ago, even though she had desperately wanted a family, she would willingly have sacrificed that need to be with him. From Wordnik.com. [A Cure For Love]
He felt, illuminatingly, that the thing to do was to cast a spell not only over the storekeeper but over all the customers as well — and perhaps through the psychology of the herd instinct they would buy as an astounded and immediately convinced whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Douglass illuminatingly traces in their intelligence connections. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
The Glass Menagerie, Nettie's recollections are illuminatingly lyrical. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
A good critic can be illuminatingly hostile toward a poem he discusses. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
He had made them -- Mrs. Maturin once illuminatingly remarked -- more like children. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
The Nobel Prize in Literature would have been more illuminatingly named not after Dynamite. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
The characteristics are illuminatingly revealing of the Malaysian rectitude and moral fibre. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
"Whonky, dud, na-poo," explained Richards illuminatingly, whilst Mr. Walters gazed at him icily. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm Sage, Detective] Reference
As a torchlight played over Bob's earnest face, I found his interest in hedgehogs suddenly and illuminatingly strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
We can understand it, tell stories about it with beginnings, middles and ends, represent it accurately and illuminatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Micklethwait] Reference
Our own state capitol building is one of the prettiest, if not THE prettiest, in the United States and at night it is illuminatingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Macmillan is a distinguished historian who has written illuminatingly on topics as diverse as the 1919 Paris peace conference and Nixon in China. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In this connection, Heehs illuminatingly finds Ghose's "… laissez-faire attitude towards the development of terrorism …" to be related to something deeper in his personality. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
Bostridge writes illuminatingly and thoroughly about Florence's achievements as a reformer, his one flaw being (in Henry James's words, which he himself quotes) "not knowing where to stop". From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
She was sparkling and exerting herself, talking brilliantly and illuminatingly upon the chaos still known as Europe, and it was patent that her knowledge was not derived from newspapers or drawing-room gossip. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
In Chapters II and III, I have already discussed historically the pronunciation of a in the United Statesnot, I fear, to much effect, but at all events as illuminatingly as the meagre materials so far amassed permit. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 2. The Vowels] Reference
He felt, illuminatingly, that the thing to do was to cast a spell not only over the storekeeper but over all the customers as well -- and perhaps through the psychology of the herd instinct they would buy as an astounded and immediately convinced whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
This book is a well-organized and illuminatingly-annotated selection of Francis’s thinking on race. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Brimelow on Sam Francis Race Anthology] Reference
This steady obliteration of primary motives is manifested most illuminatingly by the statistics of what used to be “Crime and. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Science "-- and as far as the Severn Tunnel discourses illuminatingly on biology, mineralogy, astronomy, chemistry as David-Vivien had never heard them treated previously. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
As Mark Bowden illuminatingly stated in his book "Blackhawk Down": "The idea used to be that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent, innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish leaders. From Wordnik.com. ["Our special operations people have been itching to clean them up."] Reference
But he was also a composer and arranger of harmonic sophistication and theme-weaving contrapuntal skill, who could write illuminatingly for big bands (he was a staff arranger for. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"A ten-to-one shot," he replied illuminatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course] Reference
(1933) surveys the question of isolation very illuminatingly as it appeared in the opening years of the great economic slump which closed down for good and all the wild freedoms of Acquisitive Private. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
1959; reprint, 1967), which illuminatingly analyzes Enlightenment mythology; Fritz Strich, Die Mythologie in der deutschen. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
5) and a little later our author suggests quite illuminatingly, if imaginatively. From Wordnik.com. [Still Point] Reference
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