Sentence examples for illustrates rather from inspiring English sources

She deploys his plot and his songs, but her ironic flashiness illustrates rather than penetrates the punishing emotions of the film.

Unlike the eschatological myths of the Gorgias and Phaedo, the final myth of the Republic illustrates rather "everything in this world that opposes the realization of the philosophical ideal.

Forget the sneering reviews this is the most neo-con movie of 2009, or perhaps ever, because it illustrates, rather than argues, the point we neo-cons made in Iraq: that American blood is not worth more than the blood of others, and that others' freedom is not worth less than American freedom.

The Hutterites illustrate rather clearly just what's involved.

Zimmerman's charming cartoons illustrate rather than dramatize psychic struggle.

Despite the helpful category structure, more than a few of the artists seem to be simply illustrating, rather than embodying, Ms. Hoptman's eight propositions.

Some of the artists illustrate rather than fully embody the curators' categories, and there is an excess of fashionable, even overexposed artists from a handful of hot galleries.

Until the mid-1970s, the Plastic People performed semi-legally, ostensibly illustrating (rather brief) lectures on music by their Svengali, the poet Ivan Jirous.

But this physical feature is exaggerated almost to the point of caricature, and a sense that Hockney is illustrating rather than portraying his sitters soon starts to creep in.

(The Sunday Times article was illustrated rather vividly by the story of a woman who, while waiting two and a half years for her husband to pay maintenance, said: "I'm pretty sure I cost the government around £400,000").

If you read the titles of the musical numbers, you can more or less figure out the plot, since the lyrics illustrate rather than illuminate the action: "How 'Bout a Dance?" They dance.