Sentence examples for instead of illuminating from inspiring English sources

The arrangements are bold but often misplaced, cluttering and distracting from the songs instead of illuminating them; the characters get lost in their costumes.

For one thing, they're shown in a grey, neoclassical hall whose stone walls don't contrast enough with these stone artworks – it is a deathly space that mutes the greatest Greek art instead of illuminating it.

Instead of illuminating the device through the electrode, as is the conventional approach, a new vertical configuration is employed with light coming between the two electrodes.

Instead of illuminating one target during the whole CPI, the pulses can be allocated to all the targets and the observing sequence is arranged randomly.

Bright lights are also "the ironic equivalent of darkness" in the film, blinding instead of illuminating.

And last week, it even crept into the campaign for President, with charges and counter-charges that served to obscure the issues instead of illuminating the critical choices we face as a nation.

He may be the best-read prime minister in decades, but his learning seems to hamper instead of illuminate his path.

Literary types and their followers use it instead of illuminate, although the primary meaning has changed to delineate, "to bring out in sharp detail," a more intense form of "describe".

So much blandly sweeping, speechifying history and so little personalized dramatic focus turn "No God, No Master" into a series of issue-driven snapshots instead of something genuinely illuminating.

The other works in the show are reflection holograms; light bounces off of them (instead of through) to illuminate their illusion.

Instead of trying to illuminate Wilde's inner life, Ms. Belford settles for chronicling the clothes he wore, the parties he attended, the young men he befriended.