In a recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks used an illuminating word: alienation.
I'll leave the last word to Judge Posner, with this observation from his illuminating book: "By self-awareness and discipline, a judge can learn not to allow his sympathies or antipathies to influence his judicial votes – unduly.
The result is an important and illuminating book.
And we fully expect Bucks readers to post equally illuminating six-word work memoirs of their own in the comments.
"Rational Irrationalism" amounts to a provocative — and boldly illuminating — two-word critical essay on minimalist and post-minimalist art.
Here, he suggests, is a moment of "reverse envy", when a painter pays homage to the illuminating clarity of words.
Even the tracks labeled "studio dialogue" are not illuminating; most of the words spoken fall into the "Let's try that one again" or "What's that noise?" category.
That narrative mainly takes the form of a long and sustained first-person rant, interspersed with more illuminating anecdotal passages and words of wisdom imparted in the tone of a grumpy uncle.
The city's name Tubas derives from the Canaanite word Tuba Syoys or "illuminating star".
Re "Finding Poetry in the Page and, Later, on the Canvas" ("First Crush" series, front page, Aug. 15): Holland Cotter's transference of words to images is illuminating and tender.
