Perhaps the most illuminating passages are those about what is likely to happen in Murdoch's companies when his sons, James and Lachlan, assume responsibility.
And he asked what the great Scottish economist might have to say about the most recent crisis.Mr Otteson was kind enough to channel Mr Smith in response by citing a string of illuminating passages.
In one of their most illuminating passages, the authors double back to 1954 in order to trace, often in hilarious detail, Ronald Reagan's demise as a left-leaning actor and phoenix-like rebirth as a pitchman for reactionary causes.
Some of Kay's most illuminating passages center not on what conspiracy theorists believe — even to dignify it with the word "theory" is probably to grant them more legitimacy than they deserve — but on why they are attracted to such tedious rubbish in the first place.
Some of the most illuminating passages in the present volume have to do not with the best-known episodes of Wilde's life, especially his trial and imprisonment for sodomy in the case of the manipulative Douglas, but the Wilde of many moods and many different situations.
Mr. Cook relies heavily on these works, but he also introduces, with a deft hand, hundreds of illuminating passages from Kazin's unpublished journals to round out the picture, identify pseudonymous figures and correct the record, which Kazin, by his own admission, shaped for artistic purposes.
Exposed by the Mask, essays delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, contains illuminating passages about theatre spaces ('practically every major theatre built in the last 50 years is too big'), the dead weight of naturalism, and a keen analysis of the speaking of Shakespearean verse.
One of the most illuminating passages in Watto, his 2011 memoir, is where Watson describes his awkward teenage years: "I never went to parties in high school because I always had cricket the next day, and I never used to smoke pot like everyone else.
(He is the author of what I consider the the single-most-illuminating passage about the band Radiohead).1 Second, he is simply the most prominent voice in a small but apparently very angry contingent that I feel great empathy for.
