Blanchett's performance is a kind of piñata of emotion: with each humiliating blow Blanche takes, Blanchett gives out a bounty of illuminating complex feelings: flirtatious-aggressive, desolate-hopeful; beleaguered-intrepid, exhausted-manic.
All of the characters whose feelings he has illuminated in words (and music) contain a glimmer of his own humanity.
The flip side of that is that the holiday season can illuminate feelings of isolation for those that are separated or estranged from their families, or otherwise socially isolated for any reason during that time, such as a lack of finances for travel, stressed relationships or family conflicts.
Like a good poem, "Living, Thinking, Looking" is by turns concrete and abstract, illuminating hidden corners of experience and feeling.
So far, "Invisibilia" has done a brilliant job of illuminating its subject, the invisible forces thoughts, feelings, expectations, assumptions, cultural norms that shape our lives.
But, in the final analysis, in the wake of reading this delightful book, the feeling was unavoidable that Packer illustrates a situation without really illuminating it.
It moves slowly and patiently through the ordeal of a single soul, illuminating in the process a cosmos of intense and hidden feeling.
But there are flashes that illuminate the feeling of watching truth being skinned alive.
My hosts were gracious, and I left the realm of stage lights feeling, in a word, illuminated.
Since our present feelings are inevitably "shadowed" by those in our past, Nussbaum considers the narrative arts especially illuminating about "emotion-histories".
