You're lectured by a bespectacled scholar (played by Ellen Lauren) about different aspects of the work (a device intentionally absurd, always bizarre, sometimes annoying, occasionally enlightening).
Reading these one-sided missives one after the next offers a voyeuristic, occasionally enlightening portrait of the ways people use e-mail to communicate in 2013.
"The classic French T-shirt always looks right in spring year after year," Ms. Paltrow recently wrote on Goop, her occasionally enlightening lifestyle Web site.
How could he reverse a trend begun by Clement Attlee and followed by every prime minister since, to explain and justify all the controversies of their time, and occasionally enlighten their readers?
One is an entertaining and occasionally enlightening 22-minute conversation between Mr. Leary and Mr. Tolan, conducted during the last week of filming, in which they talk about things like "getting a little lost" in Season 4 and deciding how to end the series.
I Am Brian Wilson is a beguilingly honest account of what it is to be Wilson, fractured genius, even if it is often meandering and only occasionally enlightening about the other sounds he once heard in his head – the beautiful melodies, complex harmonies and vaultingly ambitious productions of his finest songs, which are, by common critical consent, among the greatest ever written.
So his recent documentary South of the Border offers a perspective that is occasionally enlightening and often convincing.
We hope it enlightens, occasionally entertains, and doubtless infuriates with its selection of the 100 most powerful people in the media.
He has a clear sound and a musical sense that is mostly enlightened if betrayed occasionally by small crudenesses of attack.
So I'll tell you that reading "Martin Sloane" made me feel melancholic, hopeful, amused, energized, enlightened, unnerved, touched and finally grateful that occasionally a writer comes along who gets real life just right.
