Examples of illuminating in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Bogdanovich’s extended interview with Hitchcock, from 1963, is a more illuminating document than François Truffaut’s celebrated book of interviews with him from the same era. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022 My entrance into my 30s has been the most illuminating experience of my life. — Tasnim Ahmed, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2021 Spencer changes that, humanizing her legacy in a way that's both illuminating and necessary. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 5 Nov. 2021 But the most illuminating material came from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, where her diaries, letters and photographs are stored in an archive. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021 And then use only the best — most illuminating — parts. — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 27 Oct. 2021 The two scenes with the witches are more illuminating, anyway. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021 That Angelina Jolie profile was very illuminating and sad but lmao men are still opening essays like this??? — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 5 Sep. 2021 Drew Sidora hammered that in even further on the last season of Real Housewives of Atlanta — fraught family dynamics are often more uncomfortable than entertaining or illuminating. — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021

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