A program note from authors Smith and Arthur Giron and director Gabriel Barre claims: "We have endeavored, not only to tell the real life story of John Newton, but also to illuminate the struggles of ordinary men and women who were prey to the evils of slavery and those who risked everything to end the hideous practice in Britain".
But it does little to illuminate that struggle, preferring instead a constant parade of people telling the camera how dreadful it would be if The Times did not survive.
Lévy is trying to document a lively struggle between art and philosophy to illuminate human experience, in which the two are sometimes rivals and sometimes allies.
In the interim, it is our hope that the perspectives explored in this work may help to illuminate the internal struggles faced globally by TCAM practitioner groups passing through regulatory transitions, and to inform further investigation around how such regulations may be more effectively and seamlessly implemented, in the public interest, across nations.
Dr. Petroski, a professor of civil engineering at Duke, uses these and other examples to illuminate the complex struggle between physical forces, economics, personality quirks and dumb luck that leads to engineering triumphs.
India's struggles with willow in hand only served to illuminate the quality of Bell's innings.
But Strong also sees the civil rights struggle as a tool of sorts, a prism through which to illuminate generational differences.
They promise to illuminate a variety of new social movements be it the struggles of ethnic or religious minorities, of gays and lesbians or of people with disabilities.
Perhaps the biggest mystery is how Herbst's musings on her history are meant to illuminate or give context to the enactment of Ho's struggles.
