With such criteria in mind, it should be possible continuously to construct classification schemes that illuminate humanity's religious history.
This is a maxim that has been used to illuminate humanity's propensity for war, but it is also an accurate reflection of many veterans' experiences.
The study of genes has already illuminated humanity's history, showing how and when the species spread from its African roots to the farthest corners of the world.
Biologically speaking, a very detailed map of how our brain is wired should illuminate humanity's understanding of the neuronal pathways that control our emotions, thoughts, hunger etc.
Throughout a century of oppression, photography served as a ray of light for black Americans, illuminating the humanity, beauty and achievements long hidden in the culture at large.
For all its deep-seated sorrows, this is a hopeful book, a series of striking vignettes illuminating the humanity of these fully realized characters.
People often gush on about the splendid richness and infinite versatility of the thriller genre how it can be a metaphor, how it can be used to explore and illuminate any subject humanity can think of, how it can capture the axis of good and evil on the planet but it's seldom that a thriller really does make a material impact on the real world.
Is Anderson's project, in part, an attempt to bring viewers face-to-face with a so-called "non-person" and illuminate his undeniable humanity?
Like Funt and Milgram, Bunim/Murray Productions continues to select test subjects who they feel will illuminate some aspect of humanity.
Yet, driven by a relentless need for perfection, his show remains a masterpiece of improvised dialogue; a mosaic of brilliant observations about society; of exquisite interviews of celebrities and even ordinary people that surgically cut to the heart of their humanity and illuminate their vulnerability as no other interviewer in any other medium ever has -- or ever could.
