Sentence examples for illuminating context from inspiring English sources

His particular gift is to encapsulate complex historical and biographical events pithily and in an illuminating context.

Now and then maybe every third entry he found something to tweak in the definition, or a bit of illuminating context.

He demonstrated that acute memory in his 1968 book "Native Realm, A Search for Self-Definition," a compelling and mildly ironic account of his life, work and thoughts in the illuminating context of Baltic and family history.

Not only should the Iraqi people know what their money went for, the data could provide an illuminating context for the current Russian, French and German indignation over the American contracting list, and for the diplomatic jousting of the past year.

Credit goes to the International Contemporary Ensemble (also known as ICE) for finding a new and illuminating context in which to position Cage, by juxtaposing his music with a benchmark serialist composition by Pierre Boulez, "Le Marteau Sans Maître" ("The Hammer Without a Master"), for its concert at Miller on Thursday evening.

This is why the "Copernican scholium" provides the most illuminating context for reading the Principia.

Although focusing mainly on the story post 9/11, Lamb's grasp of the back story enables her to weave illuminating historical context into the narrative.

Thanks so much, Professor Shorter, for providing this brief but illuminating historical context.

Some of the museum's treasures will be given illuminating new contexts.

Another of the great problems with the Royal Collection, or rather the bits of it one is allowed to see, is that the work is often not presented in any kind of useful or illuminating art-historical context.

It is illuminating, in this context, to compare Betti's and Hirsch's objections, to the criticism directed against Truth and Method from another point of view, namely that of the Frankfurt School.