The phrase 'illuminating point' is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is often used to refer to an idea, opinion, or piece of information that provides clarification and deeper insight into a topic. For example, "The professor made an illuminating point about the long-term effects of environmental pollution."
It's an illuminating point, but less about the book than about Segal herself.
Professor Anne Power of the London School of Economics made an illuminating point about the Olympic borough of Newham when speaking about it on Monday.
Two point objects separated by a distance y produce two Fresnel zone patterns at the hologram with centres separated by a distance z, where z = pay/(Pa − qa), if Pa and qa are the distances from the illuminating point source of wave-length λa to the hologram film and from the film to the object, respectively.
It's an illuminating point of comparison, even if I'm hesitant to join Urback in drawing an equivalence between on-going (at the time) sexual harassment allegations and a context-less, withdrawn assault charge from years before.
To measure the SNR, we acquired 64-channel photoacoustic signals repeatedly from a single illuminating point on a black tape with laser pulse energy of 70 nJ.
For a team bent on maintaining home-field advantage -- something that has recently included wintry temperatures -- these are illuminating points.
Whereas "Illiberal Education," the book that made Mr. D'Souza a conservative star back in 1991, had some illuminating points to make about the excesses of political correctness on college campuses, this embarrassing volume is an out-and-out partisan screed made up of illogical arguments, distorted and cherry-picked information, ridiculous generalizations and nutty asides.
"But we as Canadians can't just turn our backs and say, 'Let someone else take care of it.' " Although Canada and the United States are alike in many ways, the Newtonbrook housing effort is one of those illuminating points that reveal deep differences.
Here are the three most illuminating points: the nascent United States was conceived from the very beginning as an empire where the concept of democracy was totally distrusted and feared, a qualified tolerance of slavery and the roots of the coming civil war were woven in the very fabric of the new nation, and the balancing act between liberty and security is by no means a contemporary concern.
And, in a way, I was using weddings as a way of looking at American culture, and for me, certainly, weddings were a very illuminating entry point into thinking about what our priorities are as a culture.
The largest of its kind in Europe, the neon collection offers a fascinating look at the intersection of art and social organization in the Polish People's Republic and serves as an accessibly illuminating entry point into the country's postwar history.
