Sentence examples for illuminating phrase from inspiring English sources

Just checking... * "That which remains" is an illuminating phrase that I've first encountered while reading Ken Wilber, a modern American sage.

He magnificently captures Antony's shame after the battle of Actium and has the capacity to illuminate every phrase: when he says "this pine is barked [ie stripped] that overtopped them all" he gives an unforgettable image of a man confronting his own desolation.

And an encore by Bellini ("O quante volte") was lovely, its ornate swells and long phrases illuminating the text.

The Eiffel Tower was illuminated with that phrase Friday night.

That phrase illuminates a key part of St. Aubyn's ambition: it connects self-understanding to high literary effort by echoing a line in T. S. Eliot's "East Coker" which describes writing as "a raid on the inarticulate".

And his way of investing words with meaning -- the hallmark of a lied specialist and the reason Mr. Hampson can be such a fine recitalist -- made small things illuminating or suddenly poignant: a phrase would gently reach out and touch you to tears.

At best, this is how Hughes's criticism works, illuminating its subjects in a single phrase and also casting light on his own work.

Her expressive phrasing illuminated the subtleties of Hermann Zilcher's "Musikanten" ("Musician"), with Brent Funderburk, her excellent pianist, deftly playing the colorful piano part.

The two recently released an impressive disc of Verdi opera scenes; Ms. Radvanovsky also recently recorded a CD of Verdi arias that illuminates her elegant phrasing and lustrous sound.

Waving a wand called "strict construction" can't fully illuminate purposely vague phrases like "cruel and unusual". Invoking original intent won't tell you what the authors' original intent was about dealing with changing circumstances.

Adequate explications are required to satisfy criteria of syntactical determinacy, semantic relevance, and pragmatic benefit (by clarifying and illuminating the meaning of those words and phrases in specific contexts).