Sentence examples for illuminating books from inspiring English sources

His vision is essentially humane and thus old-fashioned, and both his pictures and writing – he has published several illuminating books of essays – are characterised by a sense of purpose you do not much encounter in photography any more.

Stanley Cavell, Elizabeth Kendall, James Harvey have written illuminating books about it; Pauline Kael, Parker Tyler, Manny Farber, James Agee have shed light.

The sharpest opposition in the Gospels, the scholar and former priest John Dominic Crossan points out in his illuminating books — "The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant" is the best known — is between John the Faster and Jesus the Feaster.

Mr Lane never patronises his readers, and those willing to make the effort to think about what he is saying will be rewarded with one of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.

But by the end of this illuminating book he is living in fear after waves of racist violence, haunted by predictions the child from his second marriage will crawl through his blood, as happened to a partner stabbed to death.

But the tone is oddly aloof, as if Rougeau, concerned that we might confuse him with his simple hero, begrudged him insight, and settled for a less illuminating book.

But in these pages Ms. Weitz, a professor of sociology and women's studies at Arizona State University, demonstrates neither the academic chops nor the simple curiosity that might have fueled an illuminating book.

As I walk down the street to this house, dappled sunlight illuminating book-lined interiors, I'm thinking: this is going to be Woody Allen meets Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; this is going to be all black polo necks and sassy talk about therapists and Norman Mailer and who will inherit his mantle.

If farces are regarded as providing a good time in bad times, it's because, as John Caird argues in his illuminating book Theatre Craft, the genre will inevitably be funny if done properly: "A good farce obliges the audience to believe both in the characters and the events to the point where laughter is their only recourse".

Author Joan D. Chittister brings added dimension to this point of view in her illuminating book The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully.

In Mr. Adams' illuminating book, I got to know a man of deep intelligence with a fierce love for his country.