"illustrate you" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's actions or behaviors that exemplify a certain trait or characteristic. For example, "Your tireless dedication to your work illustrates you as a hardworking and determined individual."
To illustrate, you cite Colonel Qaddafi's complaint that in an electoral democracy a majority of 51percentt can lord it over a minority of 49percentthushus producing a dictatorship.
But he added, "As both these examples illustrate, you can't systematically achieve the kind of change that's needed without partnership from the federal government," particularly because of the enormous amounts of money needed.
To illustrate: you may not pepper your front yard with signs reading "Guarded by Charlton Heston" (if he is not actually in your house keeping and bearing arms), but if you are awakened in the night by a crowbar prying open your back door, you may bark like Charlton Heston to frighten off the intruder.
To illustrate, you may hear that a position requires someone who can be creative but it is not an important or essential skill.
As the fates of Spinoza, Tschirnhaus, or Toland illustrate, you cannot be a dynamic freethinker and a professor in the conservative university system at the same time.
A quote serves to illustrate: You are responsible and accountable for things over which you have no control.
"But the whole history of desegregation clearly illustrates you have to have forceful intervention".
First, as the finger in his cheek illustrated, you hook a shark by its gills.
A signal flag illustrating "You've got your signals crossed" refers to displaying signal flags in incorrect order.
As I hope I've illustrated, you won't find much mechanical difference between the Tucson and its rivals, except among those that offer upgraded power options.
As DiVito's GIF illustrates, you're usually left with a dark void when you succumb to the car collision of appetite the WWW can bring on.
