Ward's images were designed to be seen in their original contexts, not forced to illuminate arguments that Ward never heard.
Betancourt's recollections of the events leading to her capture, and her commentary on Uribe's refusal to negotiate on behalf of the FARC hostages, help illuminate arguments being fought publicly in the present.
While the macroscopic analyses are illuminating, the arguments cannot be strong without a concrete case.
But — this is my own empirical observation — although experiments can illuminate philosophical arguments, they don't settle them.
As he does in his popular Harvard course, Sandel examines various theories of justice and seeks to illuminate the implicit arguments about it that underlie political conflict.
Moreover, the fact that there is a clear difference between the approaches taken by these two senior ministers illuminates the big arguments that will define the Tories' future.
Last week's arguments illuminated two different aspects of the court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.: an intellectual side at ease with legal issues of colossal complexity, and a pithy, conversational side that can frame issues in accessible nuggets.
In a closing argument illuminated by graphic videos and photos of the dead and wounded, Colonel Morse said Sergeant Bales had shown no mercy to the Afghan families, and deserved none from his military peers.
In fact, Kant did believe that the French Revolution was legitimate, and a look at his argument illuminates some of his complex terminology.
Mr. Birmingham's argument illuminates the plight of adjunct faculty, but it also demonstrates how universities make ends meet.
