Sentence examples for rather than illustrating from inspiring English sources

The movement sections fleshed out the emotional back story, rather than illustrating the text.

Rather than illustrating Poe, Redon's lithographs are poems in visual terms, themselves evoking the poet's world of private torment.

The painting channels the spirit, rather than illustrating the idea, of Bataille's proposed reduction of art, by "successive destructions," to base matter.

The director and producer, Robert Kenner, has beautifully translated the letters for television by enhancing rather than illustrating the words with wartime film clips, photographs and impressionistic re-creations.

It's difficult to describe because he was producing the idea rather than illustrating it, but it influenced me and lots of other artists – like Philippe Parreno, who I worked with later.

A wall text near the beginning of the exhibition explains (or perhaps warns) that the installation, culled from the holdings of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, encourages viewers "to compare and contrast works of art across historical periods" rather than illustrating "familiar trajectories and broad stylistic changes".

It evokes rather than illustrates a church setting for the audience.

Her best art evokes rather than illustrates, which makes their political resonance all the more powerful.

The solos embody rather than illustrate the poems, again through physical acting made even more vibrant here by Mr. Mosley's sense of theater.

His gouaches and ink drawings -- for example, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," a sinuously rhythmic silhouette -- often relate to literary works, but amplify rather than illustrate them.

He also trained in ballet, yoga, traditional Japanese dance and eurythmy, a German movement form that aims to embody rather than illustrate the ideas or themes of a dance.