If snippets like these appeared as dictionary entries, they wouldn't add up to much, but in context, as brilliantly deployed details in a comprehensive and thoughtful narrative, they are illuminating as well as fun.
The whole report is available for purchase here for the sum of €750, though the executive summary provided by the author is illuminating as well.
The material investigation aims to determine the composition of inks and pigments used for writing and illuminating, as well as the characterization of the support material.
Even so, I hoped it would be illuminating, as well as, or rather than, pruriently satisfying.
Brenton's narrative is historically illuminating as well as imaginatively free-wheeling, portraying (like Danton's Death) pure ideals muddied by human cravings and realpolitik.
It is illuminating as well as alarming to juxtapose the Milliman data with data on the distribution of money income among households in the United States.
Sharma's reconciliation of his faith and his sexuality is illuminating, as is the film's first-hand view of Mecca's most guarded areas, filmed covertly on the director's iPhone.
Burnside, conversely, writes from a position of sobriety and sanity, which makes his story more illuminating as well as more moving".
The picture he sketches of his parents – young immigrants desperate to fit in – threatens to be illuminating as well as funny, but Amos pulls away and resumes the consensual cliches about disciplinarian fathers and life before the mobile phone.
And that seems to encapsulate his unique mind, which produced work that was refreshing and illuminating as well as being problematic and transcendental.
Not being a travel journalist myself, I found the four days together to be quite illuminating as well as hysterically fun.
