Sentence examples for illuminating explanations from inspiring English sources

It is one of the impressive achievements of modern science that it seems to afford in principle quite illuminating explanations of almost every nonmental phenomenon one can think of.

The eye of this business-school professor for interesting stories is sharp and he offers illuminating explanations of why India and China work in the ways that they do.

He really understands the bond market and in plain language provides illuminating explanations of different types of bonds and how they perform in different types of markets.

With properties firmly rooted here in the spatio-temporal world, it may seem less mysterious how we could learn about them, talk about them, and use them to provide illuminating explanations.

Non-naturalist realists say: "It just does," it is "simply true" that facts such as x count as a reason for doing y, and "there won't be any illuminating explanation of what makes them true" (Shafer-Landau 2003, 47, 48).

For his illuminating explanation of exactly how wide the gap between the haves and the have nots is, Oliver took time, as always, to point out the many ways in which cable news fails to properly inform its audience as to the actual facts of the topics up for debate.

If so, models of explanation that assign a central role to laws may not be very illuminating regarding how explanation works in these disciplines.

To me the appeal of the book lies in its illuminating explications of things so apparently obvious that they would seem to require no explanation.

That explanation is perhaps not the most illuminating one, but it is a kind of explanation and it is an explanation given in terms of a necessary fact.

Whether or not it can be taken at face value, the explanation provides an illuminating counterpoint to Ahmadinejad's protestations that the Islamic regime allows free speech and tolerates criticism.

"Database Nation" is illuminating and disturbing, fascinating in its explanations of new technologies, but easily accessible to readers who might not otherwise have an interest in computers.