He stared out of the window and watched the lightning illuminate the horizon. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The fire took up Mark’s entire field of vision now, the flames close and high and illuminating the night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

About my perception: everything is sharp and clear, each sensation heightened and illuminated so that reds and yellows and blues glow. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They emitted a slight, pulsing glow, a single, illuminated heart beating through each one. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But de Vries still lacked Mendel’s crucial insight—that bolt of mathematical reasoning that had so clearly illuminated Mendel’s pea-hybrid experiments in 1865. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining into the kitchen, illuminating everything: Ulysses's whiskers, the typewriter keys, her father's upturned and smiling face, and her mother's astonished and disbelieving one. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The machine shop was no more than a dozen yards away, its lights illuminating the gate and the path. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A soft radiance, enough to illuminate the pool and the stones that sit at the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes were suddenly dazzled by a blinding white light, as the Top Box was magically illuminated so that everyone in the stands could see the inside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up: A giant stood before him, twenty feet high, its head hidden in shadow, nothing but its treelike, hairy shins illuminated by light from the castle doors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The figure took yet another step closer, finally illuminated in the moonlight. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hither and thither across their square of illuminated glass the little figures noiselessly darted, like fish in an aquarium—the silent but agitated inhabitants of another world. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flash of green light illuminated every corner of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’d even illuminated the spine with flakes of leftover gold leaf it took him three years to save. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their eyes shone with zeal, illuminated by trust. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the wispy charcoal clouds moved over them the stars throbbed, illuminating a vibrating halo of the darkness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lamps the riders carry illuminate the silhouettes of the dead, magicking them into lumbering caricatures of humanity. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the beams from the headlights illuminated the dusty road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The church with the stained-glass windows was illuminated from the inside, which gave the building an ethereal look. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The writers then dispersed in search of the stories that would illuminate, sharpen, or possibly contradict, their working hypotheses. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fittingly, in June a switch is thrown, and electric light illuminates the exhibitions for the first time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bright lights illuminate the street like a stage. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had nothing witty or insightful or illuminating to say; instead, she just shifted her weight from one foot to the other, avoiding the stares her students gave her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, as though alive itself, it poured in a thin yellow slab of brightness from under the door, illuminating the dust and splinters of the hall floor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the gold light from the candle illuminated old furniture, boxes, wrought iron signs, and empty trunks marked for Christmas. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A small triangular patch of light illuminates one wall, but darkness paints the rest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The deep hunger in those childish ideas was like a flash of lightning illuminating the whole dark inner landscape of Bigger’s mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Violet light seeped from an orb lantern and illuminated a long, narrow face with lively eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The civility of this encounter belied a caustic battle being waged outside Jackson Park for the rights to illuminate the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The door opened and a crack of light illuminated Narciso’s face. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood before Snape with his robes whipping around him, and his face was illuminated from below in the light cast by his wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

From somewhere a light illuminates the rich paper texture of the screen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like a fast-flowing dark stream, illuminated by the torches and burning sticks they held. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The invasion at Redwall continued throughout the night, the whole scene illuminated by a bright summer moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The light veers behind him and illuminates the capsized workbench, the crushed case of their radio. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was at that very moment that I knew with certainty we would always be one, together forever, protecting our loved ones, braving the wind and illuminating the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Firelight flickered on the wet cave walls, illuminating the buffalo head, the man’s body, skin the color of brick clay. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I entered to discover the room darkened except for a single small lamp illuminating the stage of the microscope at which he was working. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Papi pauses as he walks by, the reddish light illuminating his tense face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Gaslights illuminated a large brick chamber centered around a sunken stage of the sort used for rat-baiting and cockfighting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of the other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia’s idea of illuminating their tributes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The maze of pipes and grilling before him was immediately illuminated with an unnatural red light. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Polished sconces every few feet kept it faintly illuminated at all times, and Ekon didn’t have to look at the distinctly black granite walls to know where he was. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

To produce that single illuminating experiment, a thousand nonilluminating experiments have to be sent into the trash; it is battle between nature and nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There, illuminated by the light of the moon and the brightness of the desert, stood the solemn and majestic Pyramids of Egypt. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another clap of thunder shook the windows, and the stormy ceiling flashed, illuminating the golden plates as the remains of the first course vanished and were replaced, instantly, with puddings. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sun had already set, but across the lawn the airstrip was ablaze, artificially illuminated by the sort of lights Alex had seen in soccer stadiums. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The galactic core, illuminated by older, redder stars, is seen in the distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the results of recent molecular biological studies are illuminating in linking germs to the rise of food production, in Eurasia much more than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Glow sticks illuminated most of the pumpkins, two in each. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The slightest glow of early morning illuminated the Glade, turning everything dark blue and shadowed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I turned my head to see blue-and-red police lights illuminating the street and a crowd gathering outside. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the torchlight illuminates her face, I gasp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For a moment the candle flame flared high, illuminating the glen, and the girl, and the chain, unbreakable, that ran from her wrist to his. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly an extremely dark girl whose smile illuminated the dance floor pulled me and led me to the middle of the floor before I could resist. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a moment where the headlamps illuminate the ice and water below, like a swimming pool, but then the hood crashes through and, with a shower of sparks, everything goes dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The clouds rolled over Delhi in blue-black boils, their bottoms illuminated by white flashes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The curtains on the windows are tied back, and moonlight flashes through the trees, alternately illuminating and hiding his face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them is a dimmed arena of fifty thousand screaming fans, illuminated by sweeping spotlights of red and blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t worry if I were you,” Rick said as the two Rosens led him down a highly illuminated wide corridor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The compass light illuminated his face so that he looked like a carved pumpkin. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A beam of light fell across the grass, hit the bottom of a tree, and illuminated its branches; there, crouching among the budding leaves, was Crookshanks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then my glasses suddenly appeared on the nightstand, illuminated by a flash of lightning. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, the straw walls and roofs combust into yellow and orange flames, illuminating the red faces of girls running away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swing the illuminated blade and hear it sing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The candlelight that served to illuminate the cage made the albino seem totally like a creature who had never seen the sun. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“One book can take a lifetime to compose, copy, illuminate, gloss, and annotate! A lifetime in each book. You’ll be confining dozens of lifetimes to the flames!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He began to crawl slowly under the midday sun that illuminated the village one last time before we brought darkness to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Balder’s face shone like the sun: he was so beautiful that he illuminated any place he entered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the distance construction lights illuminated the skeletons of cranes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Harry went first, his wand illuminated, expecting at any moment to meet barriers, but none came. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sailors were discussing whether the ship should follow a zigzag course to evade lurking submarines and whether the navigation lights would be illuminated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He struck a match and lit a cigarette, briefly illuminating his face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The lights illuminate the snowflakes that have begun to fall faster and faster. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A full moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the parking lot. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And a smile of joy illuminated the faces of Hughie and Jones. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a celestial light illuminated the door of the cave. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alec stopped moving the workpad, holding it up to illuminate the entrances to two chambers on opposite sides of the one in which they stood. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But inside, they are brilliantly illuminated by the hot newborn stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the illuminated doorway, a new shadow creeps out onto the screen—a slate gray silhouette of a boy who walks across the stage of the window frame beneath the hovering moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their beams pierce the dark, illuminating the interior of our car in shifting strobes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she looks up at him, his soft blue eyes are bright in the afternoon sunlight that shines through the windows, illuminating the speckles of sawdust in the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Could we venture out on a summer evening, our way illuminated by the two hurtling moons of Barsoom, for a journey of high scientific adventure? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Paris will always be Paris,” Maurice Chevalier sang, if pleadingly, in 1939—but the City of Lights was rarely illuminated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Standing in the dark corridor, illuminated by the torchlight dancing in the sconces, was a short woman in a simple white dress, which was fastened around her waist with a simple blue cord. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fire blazed high as he spoke, illuminating the faces of the audience. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Loud jeering, roars of laughter, and drunken yells were drifting toward them; then came a burst of strong green light, which illuminated the scene. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Though the light of sunset is orange, creeping across the floor and illuminating my face from below, I have never looked paler; the circles under my eyes have never been more pronounced. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A crowd of several hundred spectators ringed the courtyard, which was illuminated by colorful strings of party lights. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

From here it looked solid, its surface polished bright as a mirror and illuminated by the guard towers on the White Island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it vaguely illuminating that the Negro Griffin’s sweat felt exactly the same to his body as the white Griffin’s. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wait time was excruciating, and Maya rolled over onto her side, the blue light from her phone illuminating everything in the room. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking how funny, this dark ride to the underworld, the tunnel illuminated by Shell Oil, Burger King. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in heavy furs, his face illuminated by the flame of a naphtha lamp. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Light pours through the window, illuminating his bald spot. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I switch off the light and admire the way the candle illuminates the steam. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There are two vending machines snug against the wall, both of them illuminated in a fluorescent radiance, shiny with their rows of brightly colored snack wrappers and bottled sodas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Silver moonlight spills through the window, illuminating the floorboards. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, just the young man I wanted to see,” he said, his face illuminated by candlelight. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

From an uncovered window high overhead, a little daylight made its way down the curved staircase, illuminating thousands of dust motes dancing in the dim air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

With no daylight to illuminate its interior the barn was quite dim, and yet with so much dry hay scattered everywhere, Penelope was afraid to light a candle. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A flash of light illuminates them both for an instant, and then every player is alerted that our Artifact is now in Hammie’s hands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she doesn’t hear back from him, she becomes certain, with the surety of the white light illuminating her brain, that El Li'der is to blame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like to have it illuminated to hang in the office. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Two streetlights illuminated the surface of the cracked asphalt, and a tall wire-netting fence rose to their left. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I threw open the curtains covering the windows on the far wall and illuminated the carpet on the floor. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Light flowed in from the back window, illuminating the couple, highlighting the tension in their passionate embrace. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Only the place where Capricorn sat, leaning back in his armchair with a contemptuous expression and wrapped in a silk dressing gown that shimmered like peacock feathers, was illuminated by a single lamp. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The room was cheerfully illuminated by no fewer than two dozen bright lanterns. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Far ahead through the thick velvety blackness of the corridors that reached past the illuminated circles of their flashlights, robot light twinkled. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A slanting tongue of sunlight reached all the way to where she stood and illuminated her face and headdress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind us the walkway extended to City Hall, where the city had sprung for some spotlights to illuminate the dome of the building. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The gene—the fundamental unit of heredity—must also be made of subunits, he reasoned, and the structure of DNA should illuminate these subunits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The golden light from the screen illuminated the spider’s face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Romilda Vane,” said Ron softly, and his whole face seemed to illuminate as he said it, as though hit by a ray of purest sunlight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The rosebush clusters bloomed joyously, their blushing white crowns illuminating the darkness we had endured for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the space, a single spotlight illuminated a curved sword, its blade bare and supported by two silk-covered wedges. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The room is cold, dark, barely illuminated with a faint green glow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It is warm and solid beneath her fingers, illuminated from within like a lantern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He fumbles for the switch on the sconce nearest the door and it flickers to life, illuminating the room in front of him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Words for him were like weapons designed to pierce the pages or explode above them in illuminating airbursts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The flames illuminated a small city of wooden crates that had already been packed with personal goods and prepared for shipping. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A streak of light from the front flowed past me, illuminating dusty weeds, debris and outbuildings some distance to the rear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faint torchlight provided by the bats illuminated only a few yards. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers flew as he typed in his password, the blue-white screen of the laptop illuminating his pale face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With that small task accomplished, she studied the face that was illuminated by the sliver of glave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Flames tipped the tops of slim white tapers, illuminating rough walls muffled by tapestries and old portraits in which the painted eyes of their subjects glinted like chips of glass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I am so glad to see you here this evening, because this afternoon my optometrist gave me eye drops and I couldn’t see a thing! Before I officially illuminate our Olympic torch...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the third came to life, its glow illuminating the large room so brightly that Mark turned off his flashlight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

These, Bono illuminates for me in asides, and for the first time, I fully comprehended the magnitude of human story in our endeavor and the intricacies stashed like clockwork behind the regularity of our uniforms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When someone in the crowd shouted that he couldn’t see the president, Lincoln’s son Tad volunteered to illuminate his father. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where she stood, Annabeth couldn’t see what was below, but the edge flickered with red light as if illuminated by huge fires. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I followed her and took in the mostly dark lot that was illuminated by one streetlamp on the far corner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Intelligence is essentially a banal trade of sifting through huge amounts of random information in a search for a single enlightening gem or illuminating link," he wrote. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The little grassy glade was clearly illuminated, and right in the middle of it sat Diania, bare-shouldered, bare-breasted, with Lyra sucking vigorously at her right nipple. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He began thumbing through a few of the titles: Isidore of Seville, an illuminated copy of The Rule of Saint Benedict, Saint Augustine’s Confessions. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He turns on his own cell phone and now the room is illuminated by a dull glow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights in the stadium finally turn on, illuminating the space with blinding brightness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Just wait here. I promise everything will be okay. Nothing’s going to hurt you. I’ll be back—” A brilliant golden flash illuminated the woods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She lit the sinew and a flame illuminated her tiny home. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark. Besides, you never know who is watching.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In 1993, we had invested an immense effort in illuminating how poverty twists the lives of children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy from District 1 ignites a tree branch for a torch, illuminating the grim determination on all their faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d only gone a few feet down the corridor before the dim lights flashed on and illuminated his path, though shadows clung to the walls. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pillars of chalky light reached up from the ground and illuminated the chapel, which glowed, moonlike, against the night sky. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were sparkling lanterns hanging from the branches, illuminating the clearing where dozens of finely dressed men and women were dancing, their bodies as graceful as blossoms bending in a spring breeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knocked her staff against the ground three times, until it produced enough light to illuminate the dark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The woman flashed her light at a couple on a bench, illuminating them for the split second it took to confirm that they were pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I rolled over to face the wall, which was illuminated with a plank of light from the hallway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I flipped the switch on the wall and track lighting illuminated three columns of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The painted ceiling bellied overhead like a sail, and down below the green desk lamps glowed, illuminating faces bent over books. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally there was a flash of lightning below us which illuminated a string of thunderstorms. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, however, he seemed to be illuminated by a sudden emotion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Juanita stepped forward to take a better look at the wooded area being illuminated. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window into the dark, at the illuminated trail of streetlights streaking through the air, and laughed while everyone else on the bus stayed quiet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There was faint moonlight coming in through the landing window and it illuminated the hall below. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

There was only the face of the guard, his M-16 by his side, the floodlights coming from every angle, illuminating the faces of Zeitoun’s fellow prisoners, all drawn, exhausted, half-mad with fatigue and confusion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked, illuminating a hole in the hull overhead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t understand why, but the only possible cause was the sudden appearance of the skull, which had now risen high enough to illuminate the entire wood like some grisly neon sign. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She walked into the kitchen, where Dill stood behind the cake, candlelight illuminating his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The greenish light still seeped from the marks on the floor—marks Cain had etched with his own blood—illuminating the creature who stared at her with those starving, relentless eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She fell asleep puzzling over it, and woke no more illuminated. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It illuminated the bell tower of the abandoned church at Beaver Comers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Its light shone across the floor and illuminated the circle of the door to the chamber, maybe a dozen feet away. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Through the town, over a bridge, on for a couple of miles, and he stopped at a low, rectangular building with an illuminated Pabst sign, and a Coca-Cola machine by the door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The first thing he thinks when he reaches the illuminated courtyard is that it smells the same, of smoke and caramel and something else that he cannot place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He walked past the Doge's Palace, which was already illuminated by its pink lamps, and then stomped through the twilight across the deserted St. Mark's Square. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, the field lights up with small fires illuminating the faces of women squatting by them to prepare meals. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early universe, space was brilliantly illuminated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re quiet now, leaning our heads against the stones lining the spring and watching the hanging lanterns illuminate the water with gold. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its dusty walls were illuminated by a small, flickering oil lamp, and several sacks of what appeared to be flour were pushed together in one corner in a makeshift bed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were illuminated points in her vision, little pinpricks, as though the worn fabric of the visible world was being held up against a far brighter light. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Alex was sitting on the living room sofa, taking advantage of unexpected electricity on a Sunday afternoon to illuminate his Latin textbook. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There is no electricity so it is dark, except for the area that is illuminated by sunlight pouring in through the glassless windows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The golden haze illuminated the edges of the willows and a decapitated angel statue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The room was dimly lit; he thought it might even be underground, for there were no windows, merely torches in brackets such as the ones that illuminated the walls of Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The moon was hardly a scratch in the sky, but underwater lights illuminated the tiled bottom of the pool. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The emergency light above that section of the back wall snapped back to full glare like a spotlight, illuminating the enormous black ψ painted there, along with a very clear message: GET OUT NOW. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Vikus gestured to a small oil lamp that illuminated a panel of the wall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they sweep the grounds, I sense them reaching out to me, trying to seize me with their illuminated tentacles, trying to expose my face to the light. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It illuminates her face but casts shadows in her eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The altar was adorned with thick, fragrant clusters of flowers illuminated by the slender white stemmed candles that burned from six candelabra. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of torches were placed strategically so that a soft, dusky light illuminated the entire city. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A heap of stones, planks, rubble, boards, and roof tiles lay there instead, illuminated flickeringly from inside the building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With each step, the stairs illuminate one by one, a purple-blue light sputtering to life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Father stands in my doorway, the soft yellow light from the hallway illuminating his face. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It illuminated the green expanse between trees and the rocky outcroppings that marked the start of our camp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Holding his illuminated wand aloft, Dumbledore walked into the sitting room with Harry right behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when she had nightmares, a thunder and lightning storm would rise up out of nowhere, illuminating the sky like a lullaby created just for her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And when the house has been dead quiet for a while, I push the button on my clock that makes the time illuminate: 2:17 A.M. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Koffi watched in wonder as they populated, illuminating a path down the hall to her right and around a corner. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cellar door was outlined with daylight, and it illuminated, dimly, bushels of potatoes and apples, sacks of flour and grain. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of white prayer candles illuminated the stonework of its worship hall—one hundred ninety-two at a quick count—arranged on built-in shelves that reached all the way up to its vaulted ceilings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Thunder split the air and the lightning bursts illuminated the churning, frothy tempest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the exhausting days spent taking care of unknown patients, she regained the light that had illuminated her from within when she was young, and for a time she had the illusion of being happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on a milk crate in the middle of the night with a flashlight illuminating what at this point is a paint- blasting project, I laugh too. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She walks around Command, studying the illuminated district maps that show the ongoing troop positions in the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The flame illuminated her hand stretched out: roused now, and on the alert for discoveries, I at once noticed that hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A thousand flecks of golden light sparkled upon the dark surface of the water a few feet below where he crouched; the black wall of rock beside him was illuminated too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Light, the deep purple of the ocean and a reminder of the Pleiades Corporation, illuminates a stairwell spiraling downward into darkness. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The illuminated floor markers put six feet of space between each player. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I see lightning illuminate the dark mountains like the flashbulb on my camera. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The sunlight shone through the doors, illuminating the Champion’s splattered blood like stained glass. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And black power births a kind of understanding that illuminates all the galaxies in their truest colors. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Lying in bed at night, I can look out of my window at the snow falling, illuminated by the light from my brother’s bedroom window beside mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In time, they reached a weathered door illuminated by a single sconce mounted to the wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Nita switches on another set of lights that illuminate the drawers, and paces along the left wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Whereas White had once turned to preachers to illuminate this thing of darkness, he now also searched for a scientific explanation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They illuminate a carving of an enormous and sinister face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“During the spring and autumn bird-migration season, the lights that illuminate the tower are turned off on foggy nights so they won’t confuse birds, causing them to fly into the building.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stretched out as her barn groaned and collapsed, shooting sparks up to illuminate the black clouds like fireflies in the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The mist was still there, but it was brighter, as though illuminated from within, and she half closed her eyes while they adjusted to the glare. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the deepening twilight, the firelight illuminates our faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She gazed inland toward the cliff, illuminated by flames from below. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moon over the big red barn illuminates the open field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The mutants, again, would prove crucial to these experiments: only the outliers could illuminate the nature of normal heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We turned towards the dark in front and illuminated a flickering tunnel of doors. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A blaze of light illuminated the service station where the truck driver had stopped. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The interior is dim, illuminated by a string of red bulbs that casts a warm glow on the woman methodically removing her clothes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the world: every tree and bush and blade of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Spotlights illuminated the entrance, and the sound of dribbling echoed through the building. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presses the unlock button to illuminate the screen. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Pluto, covered with methane ice and accompanied by its solitary giant moon Charon, is illuminated by a distant Sun, which appears as no more than a bright point of light in a pitch-black sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, I saw the glow of a cigarette illuminate Jonas’s lace. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen and the water, cascading ten feet into the air over a semi-naked statue that looked remarkably like Herod Sayle, was eerily illuminated by a dozen concealed lights. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The broad, rain-blotched boulevard was illuminated every half-block by short, curling lampposts with eerie, shimmering glares surrounded by smoky brown mist. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The flashlight she held illuminated the room in sections. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pale yellow streetlights illuminate the storefront just enough that through triple-paned glass and a security grate, I can see an empty display—a gray velvet outline of a neck wearing no jewelry. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The glow of the tip illuminated his face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The headlights illuminated the front of the house, and the hazards were blinking. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Two torches burned on either side of me, barely illuminating a long, damp corridor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A great white light seemed to shoot out of it, illuminating the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We paused a moment to marvel at how the rising rim of gold sun silently announced itself by illuminating the sky with brilliant, broad streaks of pink, purple, and orange. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She focused on her feet, on keeping upright as she bounded down the stairs, making for the landing below, illuminated by moonlight leaking from the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With Archer’s help, she heaved open the trapdoor, revealing a narrow stone staircase illuminated from below. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The room was dimly lighted, almost dark, but at the far end of the aisle Linda’s white casket was illuminated by a row of spotlights up in the ceiling. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep to that,” Jones instructs Booth, lighting a small candle to illuminate Booth’s compass and pointing to the southwesterly heading. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

By day the court was illuminated by sunlight that streamed in through the cracked and broken slates and slanted up through the eaves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

By five-thirty the entire house sparkled, with scented candles that Twinkle had picked up in Hartford illuminating the items on the mantel, and slender stalks of burning incense planted into the soil of potted plants. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A wistful smile illuminated his countenance from time to time—a smile that said many things. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sliver of moonlight from one of the hall’s windows illuminated Kamau’s face as he came closer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There's still not a stitch in sight, and the harsh light illuminates her body from head to toe. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The burning library and farmhouse illuminated the grounds. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She stops at a drawing of a round, windowless room illuminated only by light that filters through the koi pond enclosed in glass above it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He drew in a sharp breath as the beast eyed him, illuminated in a horrid red-orange glow from the fires on the other side of the wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thought how she might describe it, the way they bobbed on the illuminated water’s gentle swell, and how their hair spread like tendrils and their clothed bodies softly collided and drifted apart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was Golpalott’s Third Law, stated word for word as Hermione had recited it, but not a single illuminating note in the Prince’s hand to explain what it meant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Red marble, its white veins illuminated in the light of the sun, which slowly vanished as the opaque glass doors groaned shut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A bit of green light illuminated the gloom above. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I open the curtains, the first rays of morning illuminate the room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the sanctuary, candles illuminate the solemn faces of the nuns. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In a few hours, the light of dawn would illuminate the manhunters and make them into perfect, visible targets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was illuminated with a soft white light. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a phone to illuminate my way. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Twig asked as she flicked on the basement lights, illuminating our favorite hangout spot for the past few years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The whorls are illuminated in the orangish glow of the streetlamps below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The music on the stand in front of me is illuminated, and I fall in love with the light, the alto clef curlicuing around the cloudy patterns from Papa's pipe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The chambermaid lit three lamps, which illuminated but did not lighten the effect. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when they did, their grimaces of pain turned suddenly to broad white smiles, smiles that decades later would flicker across old newsreels, illuminating the greatest moment of their lives. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After getting off the interstate, he drove some ten or fifteen miles before coming upon a wooden sign illuminated only by a single spotlight secured to the ground below it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Despite the dark, I recognized his shape, and when the light from a lamp behind him illuminated the hideous scar on the side of his face, I knew for certain that it was Edmund. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He flicked it on, and a wan yellow glow illuminated the barn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy left the tent, the oasis was illuminated only by the light of the full moon. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large metal gas lamp hanging above the entrance, illuminating a brass knocker shaped like the head of a dog with a ring in its mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now all the other nook statues came to illuminated life and started shouting. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Would you—or Steve—please illuminate for the class how your cipher works?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If DNA was truly the gene carrier, he reasoned, then its structure should illuminate the nature of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The fading light of day shone through the cave’s opening, barely illuminating the darkness around us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the research by Dr. Atchley and many others have illuminated the idea that this new technology plays to our deepest human needs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would turn down virtually no request that helped illuminate texting and driving—or its risks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s an effect of the stark white light, illuminating just her face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that a flash of lightning illuminated the byre, and in the light, Dunstan saw something small and hairy in the corner, wearing a large floppy hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Flashlights built into our guns illuminate a large living room with mirrored .walls that throw our faces back at us at every turn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their torches illuminate bolts of cloth and suits on hangers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lightning illuminates the distant clouds in erratic bursts, but it’s still too far away to hear the thunder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A letter came from Aunt Carrol, and Mrs. March’s face was illuminated to such a degree when she read it that Jo and Beth, who were with her, demanded what the glad tidings were. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

If ever an enterprise needed to be illuminated with a sense of the history and meaning of the landscape, it is this. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“To Marcus,” they said, and his name seemed to illuminate the room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn't just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Light from the house streamed through the lattice-patterned doors, illuminating the enclosure like a lit lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s medical journals can be just as illuminating as Grandma’s bible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Red lights appeared in the deep, but they sucked in more light than they gave, illuminating nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The piece of black tape that covered her perpetually illuminated “check engine” light starting to peel off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It shuttles across debris, illuminates a fallen hunk of wall, lights up a twisted piece of shelving. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sunlight enters the room, but it only creates a sharp beam that barely illuminates anything but the tip of the staircase. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I watch the light of it illuminate his face, the tears on his cheeks, and try to ease that same pang in my chest. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jake swung up his flashlight and illuminated several tapering stone icicles suspended from the ceiling of the cave. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Not much could be seen on the other side of the channel; bursts of flame that illuminated only smoke. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Ahh, nice try, Stella,” I say, laughing as a bright light comes on, illuminating their faces. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Lightning splits the sky, illuminating the battlefield for a tantalizing moment. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They zigzagged across the park in blinding flashes, illuminating the terrified faces of poxies and demons alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The headlights creep through the tall stalks, illuminating a leaf here, an ear of corn there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing illuminating her was the blue night-light in August’s bedroom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were all spending the night at Morgan’s, and her mom had exiled the boys to the guest room after an illuminating game of Truth or Dare. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But for Josquin, chordal harmony was too useful a tool in illuminating the text to worry about its effect on the modes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the backyard, they mingled under the glow of blue, red, and green lights winking in the trees, their faces illuminated by the light of kerosene torches propped everywhere. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the illuminated slide in the microscope, at the orange droplet swimming in the eyepiece, and release a shaky breath. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

For Lutheran Pietists like Bach, illuminating the Gospel was paramount, as were metaphors of light and transparency. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At that same moment a beam of light found him and illuminated a face twisted with madness. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Lawrence could see the glow of spotlights illuminating the spindly hundred-foot-tall test tower from which the plutonium “gadget” was suspended. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn — the searchlights were back on again, expecting at any moment to feel the bullets rip through me even in advance of their sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why how do you do?” she said with a magnificent smile that illuminated not only her face but the entire quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry forgot everything else: He sprinted out from under the Cloak, running bent double to avoid the curses illuminating the whole hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Books and other artifacts sat behind glass, with special lights illuminating them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Far below, the night landscape whisked by—miles of dark countryside crisscrossed with illuminated highways like the strands of a web. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Velia and I walked all the way up the hill, the bright morning light illuminating our steps as we trampled through the brush. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then recognition filled the woman’s face, her broad smile illuminating the darkness, and Tally felt herself smiling in return. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Another match was struck; the candle was lit again, and Gregory held it up so that its flame illuminated a massive, towering, teetering pile of spoons and kettles and soup bowls. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the room, illuminated only by pale moonlight through the window, held only one small bed and one small fast-asleep girl. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no breeze, my white curtains are like gauze bandages, hanging limp, glimmering in the aura cast by the searchlight that illuminates this house at night, or is there a moon? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s gaze had locked on an illuminated tent set across the Night Zoo’s grounds; other beastkeepers were already heading toward it with animals in tow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The world around us changes, and suddenly we are no longer standing on the deck of the Pirate’s Den, but on top of a skyscraper, illuminated by a bloodred sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The second view of the deserted town, barely illuminated by the yellowish bulbs of the street lights, did not awaken in Aureliano any more curiosity than the first. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The normal hum from the fluorescent lights that illuminate the pathways between buildings is absent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy smiled, illuminated by the flickering yellow light of the lamps, steeped in delightful memory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sierra stepped carefully toward Bennie and then watched her friend’s phone light illuminate the ancient, rusty gears of Manny’s printing press. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All I can see is the wet snow illuminated here and there by the light from the windows on the edge of the Seam. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the woods give way to the clearing, I see paper lanterns hanging from tree branches, illuminating the pond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Courtney pulls out his phone, turns on the little flashlight, and points it upward to illuminate the second-floor balcony overlooking the foyer. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jay later claimed that the entire eastern seaboard was illuminated each evening by protesters burning him in effigy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’d finally come upon the section of the bunker that used the raving generators above: a line of fights along the ceiling illuminated the passage. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The flaring light illuminated the books stacked around the trunk nearby, and as the shadows leapt over the bindings, she began to wonder what was in them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gulped as the beam illuminated something shiny and black in the water, but upon closer scrutiny he saw that it wasn’t an alligator. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun was illuminating each blade of grass. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The room itself was plain—a gray floor with swirls that gave it the impression of movement and that was illuminated by four or five lights beaming from the shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The sun eventually rises, its light slipping through the cracks and illuminating Peeta's face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Its narrow beam traveled from black trunk to black trunk, illuminating the ground. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bright streetlamps on the town’s main drag illuminate empty parking. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry looked across the now empty common room and saw, illuminated by the moonlight, a snowy owl perched on the windowsill. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The particular path he chooses to wander down has no obvious doors, it is only a passageway between tents, endless stripes illuminated by flickering lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was pitch-dark, and only the floodlights illuminated the scene. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an illuminating insight: a scientist could understand the present and the future by examining the “battered relics” of the past. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The bare electric bulb in the corridor illuminated the whole dormitory in a pale creamy glow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning brought the sun, brightly illuminating not only the road, but also Amari’s spirits. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun lights him up from behind like a saint, illuminating his hair and the tips of the grass and leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you told me, two years later, that on the night that Voldemort returned to his body, he made a most illuminating and alarming statement to his Death Eaters. ‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

About halfway down the steps, my face runs into a hanging chain and I pull it, illuminating the hideout with a flickering fluorescent bulb. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He glanced up when a pair of headlights illuminated the parking lot. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

For one moment, Harry saw the evil, flat face illuminated in the sparks dancing on the surface of the potion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Paying me no mind, he held the cross in his palm, in such a way that it was illuminated by our little fire while he squinted at it closely. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At night I lay shivering on the floor, watching the illuminated snowflakes sift in a column through the hole in the ceiling. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were illuminated stars on the tops of some of the oldest oil derricks, and across Main Street, spotlights shown on poinsettias placed on risers to spell “Merry Xmas!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He stood to one side of She illuminated screen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The ecstasy he found in her had illuminated the dead tissues and outlined the hollow of his spirit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And around the edge of the tinted mirror there were little pink lights, so that when Lyra looked into it she saw a softly illuminated figure quite unlike the Lyra she knew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Pita’s face was illuminated by the light of the moon from an open window. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The other firemen waited behind him, in the darkness, their faces illuminated faintly by the smouldering foundation. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every head in the Great Hall swiveled toward the stranger, suddenly brightly illuminated by a fork of lightning that flashed across the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were several lights attached to the roof of a large, square house, and they illuminated a grassland surrounded by a fence. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The illuminated castle rose from the sleeping city like a mound of ice and steam. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jacob looked at them, hard, and then, like a flash of lightning illuminating the sky, he understood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But before she left the kitchen, she flipped on the lights, illuminating the room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My ruminations were particularly profound at church last Sunday when Pastor Mankins illuminated us all. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The grooves of the trapdoor began to glow, illuminating our faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A bit of light crept in around the edges of the closed blinds, illuminating the shape in the bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Since it was dark, we used our flashlights to illuminate the artifacts while we were talking. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

That night the exposition illuminated the fairgrounds one last time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Villagers were crisscrossing in front of them, their figures briefly illuminated by streetlamps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the dark room, her inherent glimmer illuminated the entire drawer. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Snape’s pale face, illuminated by the flaming cabin, was suffused with hatred just as it had been before he had cursed Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They walk up Fifth Avenue, past the stores that sell Oriental carpets, unfurled in illuminated windows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as another wild burst of lightning illuminated the fairway, he spotted it twenty yards ahead of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flared and flamed, illuminating the inside of the hall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The canvas is taut and nearly translucent—sunlight filters through the material and seams, illuminating the largest candy stand of all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The porter reached into the opening, where he found a torch in the shadows and set fire to it, illuminating a tunnel of dry stone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And finally she saw it as if the moon was illuminating it just for her: a barn slanted to the left. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It illuminated, for a moment, the single unlit bulb, and Raymie, ridiculously, felt angry at the lightbulb. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes an illuminated guest wanted to play with the rattlesnakes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A face swam before my vision, barely illuminated by the moonlight—dark intense eyes, unkempt curls spilling over a brow furrowed in worry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had a good view of the forest east of the house, illuminated by the golden hues of the setting sun. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Bilbo left his place and went and stood on a chair under the illuminated tree. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two mannequins sprang to illuminated life, both of them dressed in traditional Thanksgiving pilgrim costumes. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Miig leaned in so that the fire illuminated his face from the bottom like unsteady stage lights. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The notes of a mandolin drifting like soap bubbles from an illuminated window. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I follow his voice and find him standing by the opposite wall, his flashlight illuminating another Troll Hole. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was the Baptist church, its steeple partly illuminated by the high flames of the bonfire. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Below them, morning sunlight illuminated the Italian countryside—rolling green hills and golden fields not too different from those in Northern California. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The large hall lay quiet and dimly illuminated by hidden light sources in the transparent walls. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a broken window illuminates a swaybacked bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although it remains surprisingly little known outside specialist circles, this master narrative illuminates the origins of every nation in the Americas today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It soared high, a red shooting star illuminating an endless snow-filled sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The cell was as white as the hallway and illuminated by that same sustained, bright light. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I look up at the sky, I see an endless field of churning clouds, jet-black and furious, illuminated by lightning. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few steps away, the Governor stood staring at the mass of illuminated bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He held it in front of him with both hands, like a sword, fully illuminating his face. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the next button illuminates my mouth and things begin to improve. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her face was illuminated by the lights in the dashboard, and it appeared ghostly white set against the utter blackness of country roads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The street lights illuminate the asphalt’s rough texture. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their pale glow illuminates more of the room's wonders. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There she was, a spectral figure illuminated by a sad, wavering light. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The corridor is empty, illuminated by moonlight coming through the windows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Grace and I sit on the wooden benches in the church basement, watching the illuminated slides on the wall, singing the words to the songs, while the piano plods onward in the darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was already setting beyond the San Francisco coast, so the cranes gleamed from the powerful lights that illuminated the structures. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

After the movie ended and the lights came on to illuminate the murals of Tuscany and the painted classical galleries around us, Leper still sat amazed in his folding chair. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was December, and there’d been a huge Christmas tree in the middle of the dance hall, bright with white bulbs and an illuminated star on top. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were two floodlights illuminating his garden, and lights were on in the front windows of the house, though not in the study. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the main lights were off; only the center-stairway landings were illuminated. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom the flashlight beam illuminated a short, barren hallway ending at an iron door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A century of exploration of genetics illuminated how organisms transmit “likeness” to each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

This time there was definitely something other than a human body part visible in the frame—a distant feathery form, unevenly illuminated by the camera’s flash. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, in research widely scattered and sometimes not undertaken as a cancer study at all, we see glimmerings of the first light that may one day illuminate this problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without a moon, they see only what the insectile headlamps illuminate: fifteen feet of granular, ice-blue surface, crisscrossed by tire tracks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The side of his face was silhouetted in the dying firelight, which passed through the fine fuzz on his jaw, illuminating each thin strand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their faces are illuminated by the fire four stories below us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a small click, and the ball of light from the lamp flew back to the ceiling and illuminated them all once more. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The floating people were suddenly illuminated as they passed over a burning tent and Harry recognized one of them: Mr. Roberts, the campsite manager. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But looking at him, with his face illuminated by firelight, she couldn’t see any resemblance to his father. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two lighthouses stand guard at the mouth of the harbor, yet they are not illuminated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A blaze of glittering lights brightly illuminated the water and the grotesque scene. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The The Milky Way from slightly above the plane of its spiral arms, which are illuminated by billions of hot, young blue stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extravagantly illuminated by the midday sun, Everest’s summit pyramid loomed through an intermittent gauze of clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He crouches over his table, a single pool of light from a swinging metal lamp illuminating the large sheet of paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light illuminated the gray interior, revealing a flap of fabric near the left taillight. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Those eyes, which had been so unreadable before, were now illuminated with the light of the moon, and they were filled with horror and revulsion. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Light filters in weakly through a bank of high windows, illuminating the dust I kicked up when entering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sat on the edge of a couch and watched this new place illuminate. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the cup of tea and the teapot on the lace- covered table, as well as the pair of green earrings, and the fan his uncle had adjusted so carefully. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Hebb’s seminal 1949 book, The Organization of Behavior, illuminated a new pathway for studying the anatomy of the brain’s attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could see Edward illuminated in the glare of the new car’s headlights; he was still staring ahead, his gaze locked on something or someone I couldn’t see. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Over her shoulder, through the opening in the bulkhead, her friend watched the faintly illuminated dial on the instrument panel that showed the altitude—they weren’t losing much height. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Chandeliers with Pleiades Corp’s signature color, royal purple, illuminating the faces of actors in fancy clothes, holding martini glasses and smiling as they stared out at a fake nebula. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The only light was starlight, but it illuminated everything with a cold clarity. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A sudden blue flash illuminated the seating area for a second as the fly zapper on the ceiling took out a bug. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As he had the realization, a cloud slid beyond the moon and pale light illuminated the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The striped curtain beyond the ticket booth hangs open, and through the haze, Marco can see a figure standing in the shadows, illuminated by the sharp spark of light from a cigarette lighter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It illuminates the rain falling over it in such a way that the droplets of water sparkle like snow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For as I was making my way along the darkness of the corridor, the door to her parlour opened and she appeared at the threshold, illuminated by the light from within. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our headlights illuminate Ryan on the front porch, pushing a toy bulldozer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“When the owner appears,” Úrsula said, “God will illuminate him so that he will find it.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

What makes the Maori-Moriori collision grimly illuminating is that both groups had diverged from a common origin less than a millennium earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shifting light catches and releases the brightness of his shirt, the grey of his hair, illuminating the disapproving glare on his face as he watches the Carousel over his daughter’s shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Overhead, solemn oak trees drank up most of it, so that little was left to illuminate the cocoa-dark forest floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A ray of wintery sunlight fell across the classroom, illuminating Lupin’s gray hairs and the lines on his young face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

While each episode is a self-contained narrative designed to illuminate one propitious moment with as much storytelling skill as I can muster, taken together they feature several common themes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The light outside the school’s front entrance illuminated the whole front walk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The sheen of sweat illuminated her high cheekbones, and her blue eyes sparkled. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin’s hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The burning snakes twisted horribly and some crawled burning across the floor of the grotto to illuminate its darker recesses. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The blinding light was illuminating the grass around him.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was now in the middle of the tent, illuminated as though he were standing over some invisible white light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

To illuminate the grammar of a sentence 2. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The light of his lantern illuminated each in turn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Under the elbows of a new-leaved tree, they were illuminated in pieces — an ear, a finger, a bit of torso. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light did not seem to illuminate so much as to penetrate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The faint glow of the blade was just enough, to illuminate Annabeth’s frightened face and the mossy stone walls on either side of us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The metal lamp swayed above like a pendulum, illuminating hollow faces, throwing shadows throughout the carriage. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore illuminated the tip of his wand, so that it glowed like a torch, and smiled down at Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He strained to look over his shoulder and saw only the dimly illuminated desk, there as before, as though remembered from a dream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a full moon, so the whole island would be illuminated with light except for the most dense corners of the mangrove forest. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you—or Steve—please illuminate for the class how your cipher works?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The exhibition addresses how art and language define cultures and identity, and part of the aim is to illuminate the wider Oaxacan community in Los Angeles. Oaxacalifornia dreaming: L.A. library mural project looks at a visual language that transcends borders 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

London is about to be illuminated in a way that will render candlelight obsolete and this will change, Harriet reflects, how people dress and decorate their rooms. Books of The Times: Stella Tillyard?s ?Tides of War,? Napoleonic Novel - Review 2011-12-21T21:56:44Z

There are fresh revelations in the second book that illuminate events in the first. Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

And speaking of tone, there is a fascinating and illuminating difference between the language of A Journey Round My Skull and the many tumorous volumes that have followed it. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z

You're going to reap just what you sow, as Lou Reed said, and this painting illuminates the consequences of our actions, according to Dante. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z

Now that many Americans are heading back to the office, this should be an especially illuminating listen. 6 Advice Podcasts to Navigate the Weirdness of Daily Life 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

DORTMUND, Germany — “Let’s use smartphones and tarot cards to connect to spirits,” reads the writing on the wall, illuminated in soft ultraviolet light. Space Pagans and Smartphone Witches: Where Tech Meets Mysticism 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Chasing the intersection of solid form and thin air, Asawa was dedicated above all to drawing, and her works on paper are illuminated by a revelatory exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum on Saturday. Ruth Asawa: Solid Form Meets Thin Air 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z

He photographed himself in red Calvin Klein briefs illuminated in a red glow, one hand on his forehead, his eyes upturned and his expression concerned. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Near the door, a septet of musicians jammed beneath the arc of an illuminated rainbow. A Chinatown Loft Party in the Spirit of Warhol’s Factory 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

University of Washington psychology professor Barash explores how Buddhism and biology illuminate each other. Buddhism and biology, a Lummi carver’s story 2013-12-30T22:33:45Z

On a round table in the back was an array of seasonal corduroys, blue and yellow and orange and more, pants that I first saw illuminating the front window a couple of months ago. | Peter Elliot Men: Peter Elliot Men: Looking Like You Don?t Try Too Hard 2010-07-07T00:42:00Z

“She used her career to illuminate the humanity in Black people. The roles she played reflected her values; she never compromised. Her life so fully lived is a testimony to Greatness.” Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

In fact, “Armenia!” is a rather bookish sort of blockbuster, concentrating heavily on illuminated manuscripts, and presented in low lighting to protect the gospels and romances on view. Reverent Beauty: The Met’s Armenia Show Is One for the Ages 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

In “Film & Film #4,” performed, like “Micro 1,” on Friday, a beam of light from a projector illuminated a large paper screen. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Coogan looks like Raymond, but his sleazy world and his sad private life are sentimentalised and provided with no larger social context to illuminate them. The Look of Love – review 2013-04-27T23:03:01Z

Together with his illuminating memoir, they make fine travel companions in this year of going nowhere. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

His famous habit of regaling his cast with anecdotes about himself to illuminate something in the script created an atmosphere of community and trust that encouraged actors to draw on their own experiences in performance. Review | ‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ is a shrewd, in-depth examination of the elusive man behind the polished facade 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

In the Tharp, especially, he seemed elated, his movements clean and muscular, his partnering illuminated by an easy charm and gallantry. Adrenaline and Ease: Inside a Dancer’s Ballet Theater Debut 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

This kind of biographical insight is illuminating only because her stories resist traditional reading. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

There is, of course, far more to these movies than money-spinning: a good biopic or documentary can bring the songs to life, and illuminate the struggles of their creators. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Flaherty and Styron’s strange and illuminating stories, as told by Kennedy, provide not just insight but the impression of progress. “The Great God of Depression,” An Insightful Podcast About William Styron, Writing, and Mental Health 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

I did have his eyes to look into, and they would illuminate that gorgeous color blue. Hailee Steinfeld Transforms Into an Action Hero 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

This all-consuming story rages along, bright and scalding, illuminating three intertwined lives in contemporary India. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

It's the most illuminating thing anyone's likely to say about films on the radio this week and nobody asked him to say it. Next week's radio: from Meeting Myself Coming Back to Paul Jones 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

But this “Death of a Salesman” revival eclipses the classic instead of illuminating it. Review: ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Diluted by Too Many Experiments 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Pilots have long radioed their encounters with turbulence to air traffic controllers, giving aircraft coming in behind them a chance to illuminate the seatbelt sign in time for the rough air. Sick of Bumpy, Delayed Flights? New Weather Tech Could Help. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

It remains unlit, but the lights on our handlebars illuminated the jagged rock of the tunnel wall and the dark waters of the canal that lined the hard-packed path. Biking a Trail of History from Pittsburgh to Washington 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the world of classical music, distinctions of all kinds — stylistic, national, ethnic, religious — are often eased through illuminating, creative programming emphasizing resonance and links. Jordi Savall links cultures of Spain, Mexico in new program 2014-02-25T22:41:50Z

Some 8,000 illuminated white balloons will be lined up along a strip of the former Wall in Berlin and released after dark. Berlin plans people's party to mark 25 years since fall of Wall 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The app categorizes the works into thematic collections that illuminate the links between pieces created centuries apart. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches A New App 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

This was one of those marvellous concerts where everything seemed to illuminate everything else. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z

We next emerged into the bright dining room, where large, double-sash windows let in the late morning light to illuminate the painted moldings and fabric wallpaper. Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

These B-sides show how such ghosts haunt — yet can also illuminate — us still. The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The intention was to illuminate an overlooked aspect of his work: his skill as a reality-grounded storyteller. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The small, but illuminating “Tenacity” exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement dives into the untold stories of the women of the early colonies, and includes many artifacts from the early 17th century. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Opposite it, an illuminated billboard showed a movie star with glistening jet-black hair, his face at least 10 meters high, smoking a Makedon cigarette — ‘Perfekt!’” The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Like Payne, they are contemporary film-makers with cult followings who have walked the rocky path between pleasing their producers and making films that illuminate the dark underbelly of life. Cannes celebrates the movie mavericks 2013-05-25T23:06:17Z

This podcast on design, architecture and other assorted cleverness may be pocket-sized – most episodes clock in at under 20 minutes – but nevertheless it manages to cram a truckload of illuminating info into each one. Catch-up TV guide: from Vicious to Mad Men 2013-06-08T05:00:06Z

Elsewhere, the choreography never quite takes off, neither illuminating character nor justifying itself as musical composition. Dance Review: Melinda Sullivan Brings ‘Gone’ to Ailey Citigroup Theater 2013-08-06T21:29:18Z

My headlights will illuminate a little bit ahead of me, and I know where I’m going. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But this show presents them on their own in an arrangement that encourages close looking at the variety of silhouette, surface, technique and association within their larger similarities, and illuminates Smith’s working and thinking processes. Art Review: ‘David Smith: The Forgings’ at Gagosian Gallery 2014-01-02T21:55:28Z

Marchers will be given a sign with the name of the person they chose and will move along the parade route flanked by the illuminated sculptures. From parade to pandemic: Museum looks at 1918’s deadly flu 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

And whereas its productions of 19th-century classics used to be its cornerstone, leading the world in illuminating style, textual tradition and dramatic seriousness, none of its current ones are good enough. Royal Ballet Has Slipped a Little From Its Peak Form 2013-12-20T20:39:50Z

Chandeliers and dimly lit candles illuminated the room as people took their seats at two long tables. A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Sigg said he hoped that the exhibition would illuminate the contrasts between the two societies. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Rhinoceros With darkly hilarious urgency, this superbly-staged and disconcertingly timely revival illuminates playwright Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist warning about the seductively corrosive lure of herd mentality, and the fragility of civilized norms we take for granted. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 23-30: 'As You Like It,' REDCAT's NOW Festival and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

“You’ve arrived,” announced our obliviously cheerful GPS navigator, as my buddy and I stared, white-knuckled and slightly teary-eyed, at a padlocked gate barely illuminated by the headlights of our rented S.U.V. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

So the program, illuminating as it is, still feels a bit like those tourists: peering in, not quite seeing the whole story. | 'The Amish': ?The Amish,? an ?American Experience? Film on PBS 2012-02-27T23:17:02Z

And Corwin’s story isn’t quite a mystery—it’s a tragedy, doled out bit by bit, illuminating little about human nature and making you feel bad for listening to it. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Still, as a matter of contemporary anthropology, Fashion Week illuminates, through a magnifying lens, the state of American culture in ways that a lot of theater does not. Critic?s Notebook: Does Fashion Make Good Theater? 2010-09-16T03:48:00Z

They illuminate the unusual byways the work has traveled in its mass-media incarnations. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The colors are gorgeous, their application confident and the titles illuminating. Art In Review: MARY WEATHERFORD: ‘Manhattan’ 2012-09-13T21:02:04Z

Tiny projectors simultaneously illuminate, on an actual garment, the detail being examined on the video screen. Technology Brings the Designs of Charles James to Life 2014-04-30T22:11:48Z

If there are stories from your own family that you think will illuminate the situation, tell them. My BFF’s family is nuts! 2012-11-08T01:00:00Z

Katz used the flash on his camera to illuminate the rock pile where he and others labored in a nighttime rescue effort. A journalist at the epicenter of Haiti’s ordeal 2013-01-10T00:50:11Z

You could see through it, to an illuminated green rectangle in the far distance. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

One of the most beautiful objects here — the show’s centerpiece — is the 922-page Kennicott Bible, “the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew Bible” to survive from medieval Spain. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z

But illuminating passages like these are all too rare. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In one enchanting scene, the teenagers gambol in the gloaming, wearing lighted tutus, like an illuminated Degas painting. Review: ‘The Summer of Sangaile,’ Evanescent and Too Good to Be True 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

But “Democracy”exploits more than illuminates the music’s insurgent energy. Dance Review: Maud Le Pladec’s Percussive ‘Democracy’ 2014-05-09T21:36:43Z

Neat rings of light illuminated Max and Martin in turn, as each took pen to paper. Theater Review: ‘Address Unknown,’ a Drama in Letters, at Gould Hall 2014-04-25T20:39:24Z

Over the course of nine galleries and 150 works, their effort weaves together art, biography and history into a rich, illuminating narrative. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z

It’s a technique he employed to illuminating effect in his nearly 8,000-page “Echolot,” a nonfiction work made up of collected texts offering myriad perspectives on key weeks of the war. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Above all, there’s a sense of a teeming, overwhelmingly urgent imaginative drive, illuminated by a sense of wonder and delight—and capped by an exquisite last line. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The answer, as the new Netflix documentary "Athlete A" hauntingly illuminates, is simple. "Athlete A" is a fierce indictment of the gymnastics culture that enabled a predator 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

He is especially illuminating in following Kennedy’s final steps when his attorney general brother nudged him to become “the nation’s first civil rights President.” Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In classical theatre, such sudden contextual spotlights can newly illuminate lines previously spoken thousands of times with little significance. Timing is everything: how plays find their moments 2012-07-11T12:06:29Z

No need to check your watch or discreetly illuminate your cellphone: the clocks, watches and conversations on screen will tell you the time, with unfailing accuracy. Critic’s Notebook: In ‘The Clock,’ You Always Know the Time 2012-07-16T20:15:34Z

Under Hollenberg’s scrutiny a poem is illuminated by its context but not reduced to it. ‘A Poet’s Revolution’: a new biography of Denise Levertov 2013-07-05T21:33:23Z

These sections also seem oddly beholden to the original Civil War, and not in an illuminating way. Jeff VanderMeer on the biggest dystopia of spring, 'America War' by Omar El Akkad 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Suffice to say, these items – handmade, deeply political, anti-capitalist – now look about as quaint as illuminated manuscripts and magic lanterns. Home Of Metal: a history of the heavy in seven objects 2011-07-08T23:11:04Z

“I had the privilege to meet President Obama,” he begins, “and he told me: ‘You have a job as an artist to help people through difficult times, to illuminate things through art.’ Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Stories by the author of “Prep” illuminate the social, sexual, professional and political realities of this particular moment in America. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

But he also quoted lines from Esslin that felt congenial to him at the time and which now brilliantly illuminate his work: The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Programming algebra, however, is not necessarily linear, and none of these things added up to an illuminating performance of one of Mozart's lesser-played concertos, a piece for connoisseurs who marvel at its craftily hidden delights. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Still, Affleck clearly hopes to provide not mere entertainment, but a critique of US capitalism – and in so doing illuminates the essential hypocrisy of the gangster genre. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

In one potent solo, Mizuho Kappa illuminates her spiraling, crouching body with a flashing light. Review: Ambition and Audacity From the School of Hard Knocks 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Equally illuminating is her examination of the resentment that the military has generated by expanding its role, assuming responsibility for all manner of unlikely projects. Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

But her anger, in the end, clarifies and intensifies our view of her dilemma; it becomes an illuminating force. She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

An illuminated “Edison” sign at the top of the building solidified the region as an emerging economic power. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

The St. Luke’s musicians deftly illuminated the sonic intricacies. Pierre Boulez’s Legacy Is Explored at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Like the creators of the shows he illuminates here, Sepinwall isn’t trying to be everything to everyone. Book Review: Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised 2012-11-28T15:32:40Z

You’ve heard a lot of generic one-liners involving amusing children and clueless husbands, some of them pretty funny but none of them especially illuminating. Review: ‘One Funny Mother’ Delivers One-Liners Without Depth 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

But his understanding of modern-day racism illuminates this portrayal of the 19th century, and it’s not difficult to hear the contemporary echoes of Hiram’s observations. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

But this episode illuminates the rift that is growing between them, caused not only by Randall’s terror but also by what lying consistently requires of them. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 3: An Unusual Lady 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

But composer and performer certainly succeeded in exploring a broad range of sonic possibilities for standard percussion instruments, illuminated by Mr. Schick’s deft, nuanced touch. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Juilliard musicians illuminated the many intriguing timbral touches in “Ceres,” including the ominous rumblings from the lower strings, the climactic percussion outbursts and deft use of clarinet and trombone. Music Review: The Juilliard School’s Focus! 2013 Festival 2013-02-04T23:28:52Z

Meanwhile, upstage, shadow puppets, flying props, pantomiming actors and other visual aids illuminate some of the concepts Socrates describes. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z

“Nietzsche and the Burbs” sticks to the same formula, illuminating and gently mocking the ideas of its title subject. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

And the last week seems to have illuminated the country’s erratic condition — the violence but also the longing, or at least the posture of longing, for unity in polarizing times. How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

Which recent documentaries most illuminate and explain the world today? 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

The function of her storytelling is to illuminate the systemic, macro and micro versions of oppression that every woman deals with on a daily basis. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

The sight of Mell running around outside in pajama bottoms brandishing a toy ray gun is neither as funny nor as illuminating as Mell seems to think it is. ‘Some of Our Stallions’ Review: At Least They Don’t Shoot Horses 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Its most popular recurring art piece is a towering illuminated daisy sculpture. A Selection of Summer Music Festivals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yet, while lavish and illuminating, the show is also oddly listless, even hollow. Art Review: Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 2010-12-16T23:33:38Z

The real star, though, may be the 20-foot illuminated cross that will be carried by a thousand people in a procession from the Superdome to the show’s stage at Woldenberg Park. What to Watch Sunday 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Dido's palace is a home counties sitting room and the Trojan hero is sensibly kitted out in cardigan and what, across the shimmering, acrid spa waters illuminated by eight flares, looked like Hush Puppies. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

For this, the stage was illuminated with bright, glaring white. Music Review: ?Spectral Scriabin? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-04T22:54:27Z

Does it illuminate some essential aspect of the human condition? Weird Al's 'Mandatory Fun' is a funny sort of masterpiece 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The product history is mostly illuminating, though, as Rowbottom shows how the brand tried to keep up with the times. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Directed by Benedict Andrews, this thrilling revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner burns bright enough to scorch but also to illuminate. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The air around them seems alive, illuminating and electrifying the movement as it ebbs and flows. Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z

These novels turn the reader’s attention outward, illuminating not just the nature of the Underground Railroad and of migration pathways, respectively, but of the world that necessitated and produced them. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

King’s thoughts of death are still illuminated by erotic flame. Review | Japandroids deliver songs of fire and decay. With full-on audience participation. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

To illuminate these themes, Mr. Osnos is up for almost anything. ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

And her efforts, with Sam, to help a maimed Vietnamese child backfire in ways both terrible and illuminating. Books of The Times: Tatjana Soli?s ?Lotus Eaters? Offers Lessons From Vietnam 2010-03-29T04:59:00Z

I consider him to be one of the most exciting directors working today and am curious to see how his Broadway productions of Arthur Miller plays will illuminate our understanding of these works. Essential Arts & Culture: Thoroughly modern museums and the go-to guy for Halloween 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

This is the fateful shift David Kaczynski is least able to illuminate. ‘Every Last Tie’ by David Kaczynski: a long-awaited look at the Unabomber 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

At The Noguchi Museum in Queens, see his prolific work, illuminated innovatively, thanks to Noguchi’s fascination with light. Things to Do in New York: A Free Culture Fix, Thanks to Your Library Card 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

The closest she came to an artist’s statement, pinned to her studio door, said of her subjects, “I do not try to probe or illuminate their souls.” Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art With Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

An illuminated deli display case is stocked with rows of colorful drinks in ridiculous flavors—“Williamsburg,” “Big Data,” “Nightlife”—made from surprising ingredients. Andrea K. Scott: A New Sculpture Exhibition on the High Line 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

In keeping with the self-reflexive nature of the show, the fictional Rob sometimes says things that seem to illuminate or comment on the actions of the real Mr. Schneider. Review: Not the Real Rob Schneider, Just One He Plays on ‘Real Rob’ 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the audience, at the center of the room, a spotlight illuminated a bearded man on a stool. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

In the conductor Kent Nagano, the production has the world’s finest champion of “A Quiet Place,” who several years ago recorded Sunderland’s version and again leads it to brilliant and illuminating effect. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Her reactions, joyful to pained, offered insight into how delicate the process of illuminating Black childhood can be. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

That was part of their final American tour under their last chief conductor, Simon Rattle, whose interpretations could be willful in a way that was sometimes illuminating and sometimes frustrating. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Worse, the film depicts families then as being entirely smug, ignorant and racist, while sneering at the folks at the insurance firm with no understanding, insight or appetite for something illuminating. Gervais' "Cemetery" a witless disappointment 2010-04-16T05:11:00Z

Young men bent low over tables playing boisterous dice games while their girlfriends, hair dyed various shades of red and brown, smoked disinterestedly and texted, their faces illuminated by the glow of their phones. The Asia Issue: Next Stop: In Nanjing, China, Art and Youth Help a City Recover From Its Tragic Past 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

Josh Kline stocks a shopping cart with clear plastic bottles, illuminated from below by a white LED. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Clearly, there wasn't one illuminating over his head when he started down the crazy path. Rand Paul is pro-choice for toilets 2011-03-11T19:01:00Z

At once faithful and irreverent, it’s an illuminating interpretation that is alert to the script’s inadvertent comedy and delighted to mine it. Review: 1 Actor, in 8 Roles, Wrestles Nuance From Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude’ 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Or illuminate. To stand. To express. Or flee from. That’s basically it.” After “The Jacksonian,” Beth Henley recharges with slapstick “Laugh” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

“There was not a breath of air. This terrific fall came down in perfectly perpendicular lines; and as the lightning rushed through it, it illuminated with its ghastly effulgence a broad sheet of water.” Review | William Clark Russell’s ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor’ is a transporting nautical adventure 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

The feminist light she shines on these events never distorts their original shape; it only illuminates details we hadn’t noticed before. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The backdrop to the entire evening’s performance was an archway, illuminated around the edge with bulbs, like a dressing room mirror. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

By flashing back to the past, it illuminates the present. Why It’s Time to Kill Jack on ‘This Is Us’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

There is so much in the exhibition that is illuminating about the war. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z

Although he had "never experienced the world of gangs", he found the way the boy had to hide behind a tough facade illuminating. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z

Knowledge is a wonderful thing – but age also teaches you that knowledge, specifically knowledge about the impossibility of ever achieving full knowledge, is a thing that can weigh you down as well as illuminate. Public Enemy are rubbish? If only more classic albums got this treatment … 2012-07-17T11:43:03Z

The evolution of the song from folkie ballad to hypnotic samba, preserved in a series of long, choreographed takes, would be illuminating in itself, but Mr. Godard had much more in mind. When Mick Met Jean-Luc 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

James writes to illuminate her experience as a Black student at Taft. A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Afrofuturism is more prominent in music and the graphic arts than it is in cinema, but there are movies out there that illuminate the notion in different ways. Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But other meanings are illuminated in his book and may also shed light on why “Our Town” remains a play for our time. ‘Our Town’ debuted in 1938, but it’s still staged everywhere. A new book explains why it’s so timeless. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

But his biggest projects were his "Sky Art" - including the Olympic Rainbow, which consisted of five multi-coloured helium-filled polythene tubes, which illuminated the sky over Munich's Olympic Park. German artist Otto Piene dies aged 86 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Lewis' deep insights into the emotional complications of this music were matched by his firm grasp of classical structure and the ways in which Schubert's lyrical gift illuminates that structure. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z

However, one thing Neeson's story does illuminate — painfully — is how mortally dangerous it is to be a racial minority living in a racist society. Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a lovely, visually lively space, with boughs of pink cherry blossoms arching across the ceiling and light installations by Yuri Kinoshita, whose work illuminates several Asian restaurants in Seattle. Miyabi: Sushi to savor, in a lovely space 2013-07-25T22:43:31Z

When the “Hadestown” cast first met for rehearsals, they formed a ring around their ghost light, which had illuminated the empty Walter Kerr Theater for over a year. ‘1, 2, 3 … Exhale Together’: Broadway Families, Reunited at Last 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Another work is a rainbow made with signage letters: the alphabet illuminated in all of the hues of the spectrum. Peter Coffin: ‘Living’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Reopening the conversation is certainly worth attempting but a discussion with your mother about why she allows it to continue might be more illuminating. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Fragments of Light” is a fitting name for a show celebrating 25 years of ethereally illuminated work by Swiss-French architectural photographer Hélène Binet. See the Work of Hélène Binet in a New Exhibition 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The last opens into a blocky rock garden at the base of Zionlike sheer cliffs that appear to be illuminated from within. Classic rock: Exploring the spectacular landscape of south-central Utah 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

He wrote the book “not so as to illuminate the present through the past but to illuminate the past through the past.” A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The foyer illuminated by no fewer than 15 chandeliers. The $2.5 million condo has arrived in Washington — and it has a fabulous view of a Chick-fil-A 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

And we’ve missed sharing illuminating new experiences among other people who are experiencing the same thing at the same time — feeling and growing alongside one another. ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a rare novel that conveys the vertigo of a journey without demystifying its individual turns, but Nguyen is an able captain, and the path he charts for us is illuminating. A Broken Family Flees 1970s Saigon for New Orleans 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

An actor can point a playwright to a line that’s funnier than the one he composed; a designer can illuminate for the director the meaning of a scene. Perspective | A play is birthed online, and I was in the delivery room 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

“The Great God Brown” employed the ancient device of masked actors to illuminate contemporary psychological conflicts. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons

However, the actual reason for the shortage is even weirder — and illuminates a troubling reality about our country’s food supply chain. How a cybersecurity attack at Clorox caused a Hidden Valley Ranch shortage 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

It’s also renowned for its night skiing, with 19 illuminated trails and two terrain parks served by four lifts. On Maine’s Slopes, Plenty of Elbow Room 2013-01-04T18:54:04Z

Indeed, Baum’s two sets with her “Septet +” — a coy name for an octet — were primarily engineered to illuminate her composing and arranging chops. Flutes are for ‘cloud and angel music’? Jamie Baum doesn’t think so. 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

But hearing "Mad World" and other Tears for Fears songs in different contexts illuminates the music's sturdy bones. Why Tears for Fears deserves Rock & Roll Hall of Fame consideration 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Surrounded by darkness, the fire illuminating their faces, the family members are indistinguishable from a distance. What’s life like as a young Kennedy now? A mix of fame, obscurity and trauma. 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The piece illuminates the limitations in seeing who a person really is by looking at brain scans. ‘COLLIDING WORLDS: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art’

We can teach our children to learn the ancient Inca crafts of Morris dancing and human sacrifice that illuminate our oneness with Gaia. Digested read: Harmony by HRH The Prince of Wales 2010-10-18T20:00:00Z

"Zoë Dusanne: An Art Dealer Who Made a Difference" illuminates a pivotal moment in the history of the Seattle art scene. 'Zo? Dusanne' shines light on a key figure in 1940s, '50s Seattle art scene 2011-06-08T21:23:04Z

At Lord & Taylor, a sidewalk bower of illuminated greenery acts as an enchanted tunnel. We Need a Miracle on 34th Street 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Yes, this really is an evening event illuminated by the sun — in this case, through solar-powered lights. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps more horrifying than tumbling into a grave was the demise of William Aydelotte, whose final resting place Wright has illuminated with his flashlight. On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, walking among the spirits

He has a particularly keen appreciation of scenic designers’ vital contributions in shaping physical space to illuminate a play’s themes. Review | One of theater’s most accomplished directors reveals a life among the stars 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Stepping inside is like entering an antique marquetry box, with the flickering candlelight illuminating woodwork and a painted ceiling that make a fine setting for the inward-looking psychological dramas of the Jacobean period. Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z

Displayed in a darkened room illuminated by hidden theater lights, the work features swirls of textured colors that spill from the wall onto the floor and are constantly transformed as the lighting changes from above. Frugal Traveler: In Washington, Art and the 6-Year-Old 2013-07-02T20:19:03Z

Holl brilliantly created a curvilinear wall that allows natural light from the exterior to illuminate the galleries inside during the day, while also providing a dynamic wall of light from within at night. The Architect’s Eye: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki 2014-02-14T05:00:00Z

One wall displays an illuminated menu of the sort you’d see in a diner, and even the wood floor demands attention with its sheen. Review | José Andrés brings Spanish comfort food — including a lot of eggs — to Bethesda 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Wang’s reading was that of an attempt to illuminate every one of a great composer’s last utterances, and was all the more moving for her cool elegance. The importance of being the L.A. Phil 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Mitchell illuminates the racism in the broader culture that made egregious acts of Negrophobic violence imaginable and, in the minds of many onlookers, tolerable if not defensible. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

At least in this series, the torches everyone carries at night illuminate the action. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Yet I couldn’t help wishing it had spent less time anticipating Grahame’s death and a little more illuminating her life. Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Wiseman, in his unassuming, stubborn way, is determined to go inside, to illuminate the mysteries of collective human behavior without necessarily solving them. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z

His Richard III at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2017, for example, was a chaotic-evil rock ’n’ roll goblin, the performance simultaneously illuminating and unhinged. Method Acting? Lars Eidinger Just Wants to ‘Become Myself’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Roth said none of the politicians had much illuminating to say on the topic. Six vice presidents talk about job once considered invisible 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

There is both too much information here and too little: we see painful deathbed photographs, but hear barely a word about Kate McGarrigle’s childhood or other experiences that might illuminate our understanding of her art. Movie Review: ‘Sing Me the Songs,’ a Tribute to Kate McGarrigle 2013-06-25T22:29:46Z

The result is an illuminating show called “First Peoples.” Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z

As “The Blue Room” continues, and Julien’s tribulations do, too, his remembrances flicker on and off the screen like a guttering flame, illuminating some events and obscuring others. Mathieu Amalric Takes On ‘The Blue Room’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It also illuminates his obsession with doubles, which throws light on the various pairings in Psycho: Marion Crane and her sister, Norman Bates and his mother, Norman and Marion's boyfriend. Psycho; Double Take | Film review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

Kirn’s sentences are smart, his metaphors are apt and his ability to cobble together pieces of pop culture in new, illuminating ways is the work of a real artist. Walter Kirn’s ‘Blood Will Out’: a true tale of glitter and gullibility 2014-04-03T20:44:52Z

Pull one open, and light illuminates the object inside. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Correction: June 2, 2011 An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that an Art Citizens illuminated projection drew a warning from the People's Liberation Army. Art: Defending Dissident Artist, Hong Kong Takes Role as Chinese Rebel 2011-06-03T11:32:47Z

Portraits of civil rights heroes fill the rotunda ceiling; an illuminated sculpture pulses and glows; gospel songs play. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Takoma Park, Md., artist scrapes off black ink to craft exceptionally detailed renderings that are mostly dark but beautifully illuminated by white strokes. Review | In the galleries: Probing our relationships with living systems 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Next door, Sunder Nursery is a unique collection of plant species from near and far; another nearby tomb, that of Khan-e-Khana, a poet, is illuminated at night. The Asia Issue: Asian Odysseys 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

His explanations of changes in style and genre are illuminating, and illustrated by shrewd musical selections. ‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her younger sister Adriana doesn’t just share her bed; she’s always ready with some spiky insight, illuminating every discovery, even those that turn tragic. Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

The seven bonus tracks are illuminating if not revelatory, largely alternate vocal takes, though Lee’s poignant song from the 1972 movie “Snoopy Come Home” is included. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

And I certainly found the afternoon involving, and sometimes illuminating. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Lady Bird could be seen as the story of a young woman getting the naivety knocked out of her, through various encounters, often bruising, often illuminating, with friends, boys and family. Why millennial stories are saving Hollywood 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

The goal was not to obscure an ancient work in analysis, but to reveal — in a word, to illuminate. A Thoughtful New Translation of the Haggadah 2012-03-09T22:54:09Z

A playful and daring intelligence illuminates Ms. Manville’s features in the early scenes. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

There’s also an illuminating Ted Talk animation on cookie science. The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Together with the words of Langston Hughes, DeCarava aimed to illuminate, as a reviewer in The Times put it, “black joy, black love and resistance through art.” What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“If you live on the third rail,” she said, “what else can you do but try to use that electricity to illuminate?” How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade? 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, tape flashlights or headlamps to a water bottle or milk jug to illuminate a room with "soft glow lights." Hurricane Michael household hacks go viral ahead of major storm 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Loose arrangements of field flowers were displayed in crystal vases and taller ice columns, illuminated by hand-rolled beeswax candles. Nordic state dinner: A warm welcome for leaders from cold climes 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

And USA Today’s network illuminated pocketbook issues, as in its report on how a new Trump tax plan would affect households. Perspective | After 100 days, the media are still embarrassing themselves covering Trump. Just not as much. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Schiff is a magnificent pianist, and these performances were profoundly illuminating. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

But such twinges of authentic emotion are more disruptive than illuminating. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

It may be better for both of you that you aren’t illuminated on what it is! I think my dad’s girlfriend takes advantage of him. How can I get over my anger at her? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

It illuminated the pleasure and freedom that had been missing before. Swans With Glittering Technique, Aching to Break Hearts 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But what stood out most were the ghostly points of light illuminating the audience’s faces in the recent shows. Fashion in the Age of Instagram 2014-04-09T20:24:46Z

The handsome, painterly film seems illuminated by candlelight. French Film Festival Looks Back, to ?70s and 1700s 2011-03-02T10:18:20Z

Stick with it, though, and Angus Jackson’s production comes to illuminate the collective despair, or worse, that can hide behind a ready grin and good cheer. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z

The results are stimulating and illuminating — and also just plain old goofy fun. New in science fiction: the dreams and visions of outsiders and misfits 2012-03-28T19:31:05Z

Taking sounds from the routines of daily life and reaching for higher ground with determination, EFG offers quirky, observational songs, illuminated by delicious vocal flourishes — definitely the start of a green affair. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The duo’s characterful interpretation of Debussy’s Sonata in G minor also proved effective as they ably illuminated its impressionistic effects, pizzicati, metric ambiguities and introspective moods. Music Review: Aleksey Semenenko, Young Artist Winner, at Merkin Hall 2014-02-06T23:34:15Z

Public access to about 200,000 documents illuminated aspects of the Vichy government’s Nazi collaboration. Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The intent here may have been to draw adult-caliber performances out of age-appropriate actors, or to somehow illuminate the show by having it performed by actual children. Review: ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ Takes a Youthful Turn 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

That chummy persistence serves him well in “My Scientology Movie,” an offbeat attempt to illuminate the church’s psychological grip on its members. Review: ‘My Scientology Movie,’ an Offbeat Inquiry 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Touching the table will illuminate links and information that help viewers see the relationships between one kind of music, one cultural figure and another, across musical genres and eras. The challenge of presenting ‘African American music’: First, define it. 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

And they are able to illuminate what’s going to surface as relevant in a year’s time. Claire Danes Could Really Use a Nap 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

This revelation seemed in line with how July uses sex in her films: as both a sudden surprise and a way to illuminate the inner lives of her characters. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

The actors speak the recursive, perplexing lines quickly, illuminating little. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Batman Begins showed Bruce’s hellish preparation for his defense of Gotham, and The Dark Knight illuminated a skirmish with one charismatic Joker; those movies sounded the alarm for the all-out war movie that is TDKR. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z

A sleek modern decor illuminates fine stone work and medieval beams, there’s a games room, a grand piano and, beneath the great carved fireplace, a breakfast table. French châteaux: 10 princely stays at affordable prices 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Gold’s production never succeeds in illuminating the eternal questions the play explores about the liberation of the caged spirit, as opposed to antiquated ones about the emancipation of an oppressed wife. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z

Nor was mixing small earlier Boulez pieces with Bartók string quartets in early evening concerts illuminating. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her fingers appear to produce sparks of electricity that illuminate watery currents. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

For those wishing to see the master in action, EuroArts has collected 10 Boulez DVDs under the title "Emotion and Analysis" that include live Boulez performances, documentaries and Boulez's illuminating analyses of his own music. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In its modernization of classical Asian gestures, his work is more suavely stylish than philosophically or spiritually illuminating. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z

Now, a new video by the people at TedEd explains in illuminating detail exactly how cancer spreads–or metastasizes–through the body. Watch how cancer spreads through your body 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. | Marian Bantjes, Illuminated 2010-12-01T18:45:00Z

The elaborate lighting design illuminated each song in a different scheme, and Speer and bassist Laura Lee sported near-matching shoulder-length wigs as they strutted, dipped and took a drink in choreographed unison. Review | The Khruangbin trio makes a crowd-pleasing appearance at 9:30 Club 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

One culture the museum doesn’t illuminate, though, is that of the city in which it is found. The British Museum is full of plunder. The Museum of London reflects the city’s soul. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

After sunset, it sputtered and hissed a gloomy yellow light that illuminated our poverty. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Kwei-Armah, Center Stage’s artistic director, comes up with useful thematic context for some numbers, such as “Them Belly Full,” which helps to illuminate Marley’s concerns about average people and social injustice. ‘Marley’ at Baltimore’s Center Stage offers up the music but not the man 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

This is absorbing history that illuminates — initiates, in fact — an era of American expansionism and economic domination. Television Review: Ric Burns Looks at the History of American Whaling 2010-05-09T22:27:00Z

It consists of a donkey in a bare room, illuminated by a chandelier. How to Make the Most of the Frieze Week Art Fairs 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Yet, no less than in her exemplary Profile of Hemingway, Ross also explores the inner life of an artist, in an attempt to illuminate the mysteries of the art itself. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

It sought to illuminate what it meant to be black in America from various perspectives, and this comedy show has similar aspirations. In ‘The New Negroes,’ Unpacking the Politics Behind a Word 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

All is not ethereal on “Floating,” despite that memorable impression — and a cover image depicting a ghostly house, illuminated from within, resting atop a body of water. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Thousands watched from streets and bridges as around 400 kayaks illuminated the Danish capital’s dark canals. Decorated kayaks light up Copenhagen canals on Saint Lucia's Day 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Over the course of this motley, illuminating exhibition, it may occur to you that all of Brown’s works are still lifes — a silent absence, or freezing, of motion — of some sort. The Keeper: Roger Brown, the Artist as Voracious Collector 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

You had the sense of Mr. Bennett, poised, calm and good-humored, as a lighthouse in the middle of a churning musical sea, illuminating the way for all approaching ships. Music Review: Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-09-19T22:54:03Z

"To start with a book would be more honest and illuminating than a movie," the director told MTV News. Basic Instinct director plans film about Jesus 2010-04-13T12:18:00Z

Buzzed-about Montreal duo Purity Ring turns the stage into the equivalent of an outside patio at a posh Chicago restaurant by illuminating what resemble honeycombs placed on long sticks. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

Choreography was not documented through dance notation in the Soviet Union, although Vaynonen's widow's memoirs illuminated many details for Messerer about the choreographer's intentions and style with specific descriptions of the ballet's steps. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Tom Waine As erudite as he was rude, Kenneth Williams is now remembered as the author of a bleak and illuminating diary and not just for his saucy anecdotes and Carry On films. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z

For me, at least, this documentary was an illuminating, inspiring, painful and highly necessary trip into the past. How AIDS activism changed America 2012-09-22T17:00:00Z

But even in over-conceptualized versions, there’s usually at least one, thought-provoking portrayal that illuminates. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

"A Small Light" illuminates a corner of the story of World War II and the Holocaust that isn't often explored from a facet of a story that is relatively well-known. "A Small Light" star Liev Schreiber on playing Anne Frank's father: "He was defined by his race" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

At night, I walk my dog on the dirt road by our cabin — no street lamp to illuminate our path, only the stars obscured by dense gray clouds. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

All told, the story undun tells is sometimes chilling, often thrilling, and always illuminating. The Roots Have Made A Concept Album. And It?s Good! 2011-12-06T11:58:41Z

All are pictured at night, when the play between light and dark illuminates their basic forms and boosts the pictorial drama. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The archival materials unearthed here, especially personal letters and diary entries, are potent and illuminating, and some of the commentary offers real depth and insight. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

There’s no exploration, the language has no synapse to fire across, so it never illuminates. Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Viewers then embark on a dark, maze-like journey through multiple odd-shaped rooms illuminated only by the ambient glow of video screens and a few soft, multicolored ceiling lights. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

I heard the people clapping as the yellow light illuminated the face of my youngest and then his brother. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

They illuminate the three-dimensional efforts while revealing another, full-blown aspect of Ms. Kelly’s impressive talent. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

After dark the scene takes on another complexion, literally, as the glow of magma illuminates the clouds and landscape. Top 10 active volcanoes to see up close 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

We loved the way ABC’s “Black-ish” illuminated the painful social inequities people of color face in modern America. Best TV moments of 2016: From Lady Lyanna to the Upside Down, here are 10 reasons we loved TV this year 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Classic monologues — think “Hamlet” — illuminate the process of thinking. 10 Monologues That Make Solo Music 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

I twisted on my flashlight, which gave some comfort, but only illuminated the thinnest sliver of my new world. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But he doesn’t simply “analyze” poems or narrate events; instead he continually illuminates how those who love books can grow old reading writers who help make sense of their lives. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The auditions were in the darkened banqueting hall, on an illuminated dais furnished only with one gilded chair. From the archive, 5 October 1956: The search for an unknown Saint Joan 2012-10-05T06:30:00Z

“Boo at the Zoo” will illuminate creatures in another way, too, by helping young visitors understand their behavior. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Two long black tables, each seating 40, were stretched across the length of the stage, which was illuminated by clusters of glass globes that looked like light bulbs the size of beach balls. On the Runway Blog: At a Vuitton Celebration, Concerns About an Era's End 2011-09-22T16:19:23Z

The ceilings are finished with fluted concrete panels separated by slots that allow lighting to be installed and arranged to illuminate particular works. It’s All About the Art 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

But mainly because it' s a cathedral experience: a hundred or a thousand votaries in a dark room whose only light illuminates those big, gorgeous stars and their dreadful, beautiful problems. 
Review: Grease and a Sing-a-long: They Go Together... 2010-07-16T23:55:00Z

Yet there is something illuminating even in this — because when the curtain falls and we are trapped inside that house, the ghosts that we are left with don’t belong to the Mannons. Review: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Up Close and Powerful 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

I think that’s what my romp at the gay bar actually illuminated: I’m just sick of it. Modern Love: Stuck at the Border Between the Sexes 2011-05-19T21:19:57Z

Exit polls soon provide precise demographic breakdowns, illuminating just who voted for whom. ‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

And lines to which I’ve never paid much attention before stand out in illuminated relief, as when Gogo observes, “Everything oozes. It’s never the same pus from one minute to the next.” Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Bright lights exploded, illuminating the entire front of the hotel. The great Moon-rock heist - extract 2011-07-08T21:59:00Z

Mr Worth narrows the field of view, using personal narratives to illuminate the larger dynamics. Tales of spring and winter 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Desert Dancer” is at its best when it illuminates the crosscurrents between both. Review: ‘Desert Dancer’ Tells the Story of the Afshin Ghaffarian 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Its wooden case is “sort of like an illuminated manuscript,” Mr. Koeppe said. Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Majoli adjusts his camera to expose for the light he casts on the scene: what the strobes illuminate appears natural; what they don’t hit, even in sunlight, fades to striking black. Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Still, the comparison helps illuminate the extraordinary qualities of Flynn’s novel, one of those rare instances when a daring and genuinely literary genre title gets the success it deserves. Not the next “Gone Girl”: Why “The Girl on the Train” can’t fill Amazing Amy’s shoes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Others like them carved into goblin faces and illuminated with candles. Smasher, Smasher, How Do Your Pumpkins Throw? 2010-10-21T18:02:00Z

In seeking to illuminate Nabokov’s metamorphosis into an American writer, Roper also looks at how other creative Europeans such as filmmaker Billy Wilder managed this transition. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

A larger perspective might have illuminated anti-Communist excesses and prevented facile contemporary parallels. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z

Albert III, who died in the late 14th century, was a bibliophile who assembled hundreds of illuminated manuscripts. Cultured Traveler: In Europe, Five Libraries That Offer Respite From the Crowds 2011-07-29T19:36:57Z

The work’s meaning was less significant than how it stretched the duo and illuminated their personalities. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Nearly every object here is illuminated in similar ways, by revealing something about its origins, reputation or influence. ‘Gatsby to Garp,’ a Feast of First Editions at the Morgan 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“It opens your eyes to your past suffering and illuminates your present ones, often saving you from making further mistakes.” Once Too Radical for Italy, Goliarda Sapienza Is Belatedly Getting Her Due 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Strategically placed table lamps create warm mood lighting that illuminates the middle level of the room. Create a cozy seating area in a pass-through room 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The deceptively simple language illuminates surprisingly complex characters. Lake District 'hate triangle' absorbs playgoers in icy Cumbria 2012-02-09T15:21:02Z

The later books remystify the domestic labor that Parish took pains to illuminate. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

“We asked, ‘What if we could link our everyday lives to the collection to illuminate similarities between the present and the past?’” said Angelo Semeraro, a member of the Fabrica team. Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Transported The six books here all come at travel from different perspectives, and each helps illuminate why travel, and travel writing, still matter. Walkabout: Uber, Banned in New Delhi and Facing Competition in New York 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Instead it was produced by an elaborate device, a giant ring-light rig that Mr. Deakins and his team built to hang above the set and illuminate it in just the right tones. The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

One power that “Bombshell” and “The Loudest Voice” do not care to illuminate is whiteness. The Sexual Predator’s TV Wife 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Her pleasure in her material creates a sheen that illuminates everyone around her. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z

“We continue to call on others to join us in supporting artists so they may continue to illuminate our path forward from this prolonged pandemic.” Coronavirus Relief Fund Raises Nearly $20 Million for Artists 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The illuminating catalog to the exhibition, written by its curator, Ross D. E. MacPhee, notes that after the discovery of Scott’s body, Amundsen “began to experience a seismic shift in public opinion.” Exhibition Review: Race to the South Pole at Museum of Natural History 2010-05-28T22:30:00Z

In story after story, the participants say that a lack of basic information fueled mockery, denial, even violence, which makes the effort to ban this illuminating book feel especially heartless. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

This fairly gruesome language is illuminated with still photographs of the killings of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Jack Ruby; and students at Kent State. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Another continuing series, “GrahamDeconstructed,” will illuminate the artistic and historical background of the work or a period of Graham’s life featured in a “Matinee” episode. Graham Company to Draw on Deep Archives for Its Coming Season 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The archive, by the way, is quite illuminating on Updike’s relationship with his mother. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z

Each chapter starts with a full-page panel that looks like an illuminated manuscript, with borders full of scrollwork, bunnies, dragons, jousters and heraldic crests, but the chapters themselves unfold in straightforward, artistically uncluttered, easy-to-follow style. Get Thee to Middle School! A Ren Faire Heroine Meets the Real World 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Which points to the key difference between then and now, one which “Lorena” illuminates perfectly. I was at the Lorena Bobbitt trial – 25 years later it still makes me wince 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

She opens her lips, illuminated by her own thoughts. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z

And there comes a point near the end when she seems positively ablaze, an all-eclipsing torch amid the myriad candles with which Miss Helen illuminates her house. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z

Rizvi’s descriptions of historical sects of Islam and their conflicts with one another are especially illuminating. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

To capture that idea of a winter that is agreeably entrenched, I keep returning to Robert Frost’s poem of a guy traversing a New England woodland on a dark night illuminated by snow. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Over a Last Word — gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino and lime — I asked the bartender about the black cannon illuminated in a glass case at the entrance. A new Inner Harbor luxury hotel, the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore, shines with history’s luster 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

His prose is vivid and precise, his sense of setting sharply illuminating. 'The Convert's Song' is a skillfully layered thriller 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The church’s Tiffany windows with biblical scenes now illuminate a wedding chapel at a hotel in Riverside, Calif. Madison Square’s stone columns and some terra-cotta flourishes were transferred to a former newspaper headquarters in Hartford. Antiques: Madison Square Presbyterian Church Fragments Found 2011-12-01T22:39:26Z

As much as we think we know about these famous people, finding out about what they don’t know about themselves is more illuminating. The stealthy politics of "Finding Your Roots" 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was long — the final hour didn’t exactly fly by — but “La Substance” made for a hallucinatory experience equally illuminating and tedious. Dance Review: ‘La Substance, but in English’ Tweaks Consumerism 2014-01-13T23:29:50Z

She was headed east and noticed that the light was illuminating the lane markings and street signs before her. The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

In this jumbled production, flashes of hip-hop movement and hints of folk dancing took place under Richard Gratas’s spotlights that both illuminated the performers and manipulated the crowd. Misty Copeland Leads the Charge at Fall for Dance 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rosenthal’s work melded dance, theater, dramatic monologues, improvisation and visual art to illuminate her abiding concerns: feminism, environmentalism and animal rights. Rachel Rosenthal, Bold Performance Artist, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Puchner’s enthusiasm … inspires illuminating detours into subjects like the history of Esperanto and the birth of simultaneous interpretation at the Nuremberg trials.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

A rich, powerful land owner, called the Protector in Crimp's libretto, commissions an artist, the Boy, to celebrate his life and the achievements of his family in an extravagant illuminated book. Written on Skin – review 2012-07-08T14:38:59Z

“This exhibition, with no specific political point of view or policy stance, strives to illuminate the humanitarian crisis,” Levinas wrote. Metro reverses its decision to ban advertisements for art exhibition on the migrant crisis 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

This collection, if shown during the Paris haute couture season, would illuminate the fading calendar and underscore the meld of imagination, invention and workmanship that is Alexander McQueen today. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z

A go-to technique, Sandgren said, is to have “a long surface of light on one side” illuminating the tear, creating a border of light that accentuates its shape. How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

An act of witness, too, for the hand holds up a candle, a light to illuminate the darkness. Douglas Gordon: portrait of the evolving artist 2011-03-07T16:45:24Z

We swam single-file through a cave, our flashlights illuminating rocky outcroppings. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

If the action of “Meaning a Life” foregrounds the moral question, Mary’s narrative style illuminates its aesthetic dimension. When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Hembrey declines to say how many copies have sold, but the debate over price illuminates a larger tension between art and the marketplace. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

The ghost light — a bare bulb placed onstage when a theater is empty — was illuminated. ‘The Universe Hit Pause’: The Ripple Effects of Broadway’s Shutdown 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Narrated from alternating points of view, “What is Visible” illuminates the historical blindness of men — and women’s struggles to be seen and heard. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

Gently illuminated from behind, the stylized vista suggests dark sea and light sky at daybreak. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, as Thomas Karshan notes in his illuminating introduction, Nabokov would never write so explicitly about revolution and its ideology. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

In the 2014 edition of the reference work Contemporary Authors Online, an autobiographical statement from Ms. Moody illuminates both her departure from the civil rights movement and her comparative silence as a writer: Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s also more admirable in theory than it is illuminating in practice. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

In “House of Pleasures” electric lamps are used in the luxurious parlor, where clients mingle with the ladies of the evening, while the upstairs quarters are illuminated by candlelight. Bertrand Bonello?s ?House of Pleasures,? Set in Brothel 2011-11-20T01:53:02Z

The Bowl concert was, if not illuminating, good-natured. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

In the middle ages the genre flourished: illuminated manuscripts combined what was known about various creatures – both extant and fabulous – with moralising tales designed to edify the reader. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z

Allison offers erudite historical case studies that illuminate the pressure toward military confrontation when a rising power challenges a dominant one. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Men huddle around tables in featureless hotel rooms, their silent quest illuminated by dreary cinematography and explained only by onscreen notes. Review: ‘Magnus’ Delves Into the Life of a ‘Mozart of Chess’ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Earlier this week, Louis C.K. told the writer David Marchese, in a long, illuminating Q. and A. on Vulture, that white guys are doing fine. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Farrill was inspired by the idea of conscience, using biblical and Eastern texts and concepts to illuminate his work. Music Review: Latino Music, From Tango Back to the 16th Century 2011-05-16T21:12:01Z

The following year, renegades begin chanting “Black Power,” and the South — all but Memphis, that is — sinks into the ocean, its descent illuminated by cities aflame North and West. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

This talking-head footage is a promising start that ultimately leads to a less than illuminating documentary. ‘The Times of Bill Cunningham’ Review: Another New York Snapshot 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Emery similarly illuminates all the facets of her complex character in deft, subtle strokes. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z

The dust cloud was even there at night, illuminated by the searchlights at ground zero, casting a sinister backlight around the silhouette of the Woolworth building, the pupil in the Eye of Sauron. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

Just as food illuminates the importance of the microbial community within you, it also shines a light on your social community. Gut microbes are the community within you that you can’t live without 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

The line between a filmmaker and his films, and a writer-director and his collaborators, all but disappears in “A Fuller Life,” a loving and illuminating documentary about an American original, Samuel Fuller. ‘A Fuller Life’: a riveting portrait of filmmaker Samuel Fuller 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her engaging narrative of the politics, ideas and policies of the two Edmund Browns illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the last half of the 20th century. The Story of California Told Through One Family 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

When viewed through the illuminating frame of a fine performance it dazzles both with its light touch and with its sturdy construction, like a cathedral made of spun sugar. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z

Throughout the season, she shows him a different way of ruling and maybe illuminates some things for him. ‘The Rings of Power’: Charlie Vickers on That Monster Revelation 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The shifting kaleidoscope of voices is at once illuminating and dizzying. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The reduction became, perhaps, more illuminating of Nora’s character than the full text of the play. How designers compress ideas to their essence 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z

A giant Victorian lighthouse lens that once illuminated the Firth of Forth. National Museum of Scotland: suspend your disbelief 2011-07-26T20:31:01Z

I also loved the upstairs gallery whose exhibits provided an illuminating look at the lives of the three sisters and their doomed brother. Yorkshire celebrates the writing Brontë sisters, 200 years later 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Its intention is less to commemorate a bygone tragedy than to illuminate the unfinished business of justice and the endlessness of the struggle for democracy. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

They are illuminated by the reflected glow of white tree lights. A trendy Tannenbaum: German ambassador’s residence blends Old World traditions with modern digs 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

The lone lamp that illuminates the scene was made by Tiffany. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Working with a scientific consultant, Cornelis van Leeuwen, a viticulture professor, she presents her findings clearly and concisely, aided by illuminating maps and graphics and gorgeous photographs. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

But it’s this “new kind of love” that illuminates her portrait of Ruth. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

The resulting mayhem is instantaneous and sublime; it’s also the movie’s most ecstatic and tightly packed symbolic moment, the one that illuminated the entire viewing experience, retroactively and through the rest of the action. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Some fiction writers try to capture reality, using stories to illuminate social conditions or plumb interior lives. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The reruns were a reminder of just how timeless the show is, illuminating different nooks and crannies of the American experience and drawing unexpected lines between them. 7 Podcasts to Comfort and Connect 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

The book is particularly illuminating in discussing Hannibal’s famous crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s an illuminating historical read and a realistic depiction of the costs of war. 4 Young Adult Crossover Novels 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Vodret argued that the most interesting element is the position and perspective of the saint, who is shown on the grill, one arm extended, his figure illuminated. Experts sceptical about Vatican's attribution of 'Caravaggio' painting 2010-07-27T13:10:00Z

Through his naïveté, Jean illuminates the world around him. Review: In Fellipe Barbosa’s ‘Casa Grande,’ a Teenager Awakens to His Father’s Financial Ruin and More 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

As a follow-up to his short story collection "Monstress," Tenorio continues to illuminate the plight of the Filipino immigrant, caught in a state of otherness and often loneliness. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The museum’s darkened room will be illuminated by small concrete houses cast from milk cartons and lit from within. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

And the outcome is illuminating enough to wonder what would happen in Part 3. Review | Nora’s back in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2.’ Lucky for us, she’s played by Holly Twyford. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

The director, Taylor Reynolds, doesn’t help clarify or illuminate Harris’s shallow script, defaulting to only one mode: loud and emphatic. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Together the shows make an illuminating if accidental pairing. Television Review: ?Inside Comedy? and ?Russell Simmons Presents The Ruckus? 2012-01-25T16:21:00Z

A strike illuminates the system in which it takes place, and the messy space between perfection and failure within which change tends to happen. The Women’s Strike and the Messy Space of Change 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the behind-the-scenes stories from the movies are invariably more illuminating than the onscreen one. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Since Star Trek on TV and before that on stage, drama has sought to find imagined parallels that comment on, illuminate or bring to wider attention the logical consequences of absurd or dangerous political developments. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

A small rectangle of deep purple or magenta that seems illuminated by black lights sets the scene. Matthew Ronay: ‘Wavelength’ 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

And the repressive mechanism, just as it darkens the alley, also illuminates the worthless. David Mamet and the battle for Broadway 2010-04-11T20:30:00Z

In the mid-afternoon, light trickles through the leaves of the mulberry trees, illuminating the various curios, sculptures and remnants from previous art exhibitions that have become entwined in the shady garden. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Dries Van Noten is in a corner illuminated by a red light, a reference to the Paris tunnel where the designer showed his collection last February. At Totokaelo’s New Home, the Fitting Rooms Are Bank Vaults 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Every character in the book is drawn to Graham, and his passing is a profound loss, but each loss is different and uniquely illuminating. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Of what use now the concordance, that elaborate alphabetical list that helps scholars illuminate a word’s frequency in a deeply studied text? A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

That is, save for one passage, “The Internet,” which invites the viewer to sit through a man’s frustrating conversation with his mother and illuminates very little in the process. Hotel-based shows “Room 104″ and “The Guest Book” have limited staying power 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

If that isn’t the lyric on this album that best illuminates Ms. Parton’s worldview, it’s probably a line from “The Sacrifice,” an intriguingly steely testimonial. New Music 2011-06-27T22:41:28Z

Still this is a remarkable journey, one that illuminates the humanity in us all. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z

Soft light illuminated palm trees outside, and bellboys in white polo shirts and pants opened doors for guests in elegant evening gowns and suits. Songs about generators and Spam? New Puerto Rican music reflects the island’s resilience. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

But if Majella’s spoken range is curtailed, her interior range is vast and illuminated by a prose style at once accessible and stippled with strangeness. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Ann Hornaday, chief film critic for The Washington Post, helps us decipher the medium’s message with “Talking Pictures,” her illuminating new book for anyone who wants more from the movies than popcorn and thrills. Don’t just watch movies — understand them 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Twice a year, the rising sun illuminates the inner sanctuary of Ramses II’s Great Temple. Tourists are trickling back to Egypt 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Then I arrived at a Great Barrier Reef of illuminated manuscripts. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Müller takes care to situate the United States in an international context, using examples from other countries to illuminating effect. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

The polyphony is deftly illuminated with a crisp touch and elegant contrasts. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Few restaurants have done as much as FnB in Old Town to illuminate the agricultural bounty of Arizona. 36 Hours in Scottsdale 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

They have moss-covered gardens filled with orchids, hibiscus and flamboyants, which are illuminated at night by fireflies. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

The food is prepared in a gleaming steel kitchen and served at a brightly illuminated camphor-wood counter with 16 seats. At Torien, Pleasures on the End of a Stick 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

But natural light spills across the new Moynihan Train Hall through its massive, 92-foot-high skylight ceiling and illuminates another surprise: permanent installations by some of the most celebrated artists in the world. Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Inside, we marveled at the giant mosaic covering the entire church floor and the Piccolomini Library, filled with an array of huge, illuminated manuscripts that took the breath away. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The sense of dependency between Othello and Iago which Shaw traces in an illuminating programme note is apparent in the production. Othello – review 2013-04-27T23:07:10Z

Kanye West, dressed in a velvety red jumpsuit and a thin gold chain, was barely illuminated by a low spotlight as he sang “Only One,” his voice warped by electronics. Grammy Winners 2015: Beck, Sam Smith, Pharrell and Beyoncé Thrive 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

These biographical facts help illuminate some of the sources of his idiosyncratic songs, homespun and soulful, simple and often profound. Review: Parsons Dance Is an Enjoyable Ride, as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

The idea of examining unfinished works from the 15th century to the present is topical, illuminating and crowd-pleasing. At the Met Breuer, Thinking Inside the Box 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Inside the detention facility, Sawka illuminates a dehumanising experience for Oscar and the other young detainees, but the guards are not cruel or abusive. Icebox: the harrowing drama about child separation in America 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

But this morning all was illuminated when I went to wwd.com and saw the headline “Michelle Obama Puts Kara Ross on World Stage.” On the Runway: About That McQueen Dress 2011-01-28T17:22:01Z

The works are united, however, by a profound sense of solitude in the slow movements, beautifully illuminated by the pianist Till Fellner in his impressive recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday evening. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

Just how difficult this will be is wittily illuminated in one of the show’s most engaging musical sequences, “A Brief History of Climate Summits.” Theater Review: ‘The Great Immensity’ Gives Environmentalism Its Own Lyrics 2014-04-25T02:00:01Z

Msangi shows how each character changes over the course of the story, and her prismatic approach provides revealing details that illuminate the commonality of the characters. In "Farewell Amor," separated immigrants reunite 17 years later for an imperfect American dream 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

But the comics format makes an opaque topic artfully illuminating. 'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

How might this photograph illuminate the entanglement of slavery and freedom and offer a glimpse of the futures that will unfold? An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Using collage, performance and painting she reimagines poster and magazine imagery depicting long-legged pin-up girls, or takes vivid promotions for the communist good life and illuminates them with brilliant neon signage. Artist of the week Poland special: Paulina Olowska, Anna Molska and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski 2011-04-06T16:58:17Z

In an inspired flourish, Paul and lighting designer Colin K. Bills use neon bars of light to illuminate those numbers with explosions of color. Review | ‘Spring Awakening’ lights up Round House Theatre with visual flair 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

“We hope it will be illuminating,” Timothy said. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Dean shows him at a distance, framed by his dancers, or watchfully close, the tendrils of his hair illuminated like a Rembrandt etching. Tacita Dean: Craneway Event 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

Along with the court cases and the three lovingly researched lives, Luxenberg devotes many lively and illuminating pages to race and politics in New Orleans. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

In April, the museum will have an exhibition at the Tate Modern spotlighting artworks created by Mr. Tovey, the army veteran, and including workshops on homelessness and a display of objects illuminating the homeless experience. Museums With Ideas, Goals and Sometimes Art. But Walls? No. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

I listened to my husband and his father discuss the difficult things in life — cancer, aging — with the lighthouse periodically illuminating our faces. Keeping the Fire of Irish Lighthouses Alive 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

But it was even more underwritten than before, name-checking controversies rather than illuminating them, which has been true of most of the show’s Trump-related material. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Some of his most beautiful paintings were nocturnal landscapes or expanses of night skies illuminated by a few rays from the moon. Jake Berthot, a Painter Inspired by the Natural World, Dies at 75 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Other complexities, both emotional and technical, illuminated his readings of the French songs. Music Review: Eric Owens Uses Wagner as a Grace Note at Zankel Hall 2012-02-22T22:39:09Z

Instead, he illuminates his own participation in “the gradually realizing kingdom of God, a process of daily transformation.” Jay Parini on the complexities and contradictions of Jesus 2014-01-15T22:18:32Z

Smith’s bungalow survives the storm, and her own journey continues, illuminated by her openness to the world and her compassionate, questing spirit. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

But it is the benches, seen together, all made in poplar, that are so illuminating, especially of the idea that “shared seating” for meals, prayer, discussions or socializing encourages both community and equality. Art in Review: Francis Cape: Utopian Benches 2013-07-18T20:56:52Z

I have never seen a “Macbeth” in which “light thickens” so obscuringly and illuminatingly. Critic’s Notebook: Something Wicked This Way Runs 2013-07-08T21:17:36Z

The moon illuminated the earthen rows of the now barren vegetable garden and threw shadows of the umbrella pine trees onto the sloping lawn like spilled ink. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

But “Kusama — Infinity,” while conventionally structured, provides ample, illuminating access to an artist’s way of thinking and working. Review: ‘Kusama — Infinity’ Gives an Artist Her Due 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Clunky narration and badly edited stock footage do little to illuminate Rosalee’s times or support her memories. ‘Reinventing Rosalee’ Review: A Centenarian Who Won’t Slow Down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

It is cacophonous, while Krapp's febrile figure is illuminated in frozen poses, his face a silent scream. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z

The wedding venue was lit with lamps, colorful lights illuminated the trees and flower garlands festooned the luxury tents at the resort, the hotel official said. Brand, Perry wed at tiger reserve in India 2010-10-23T21:23:00Z

But where that show — co-curated by Mr. Müller and assisted in its German iteration by Mr. Diederichsen — felt illuminating and cohesive, this show has a lot of interesting work without a strong coherent thread. Better Living Through Music, Art and Polyamory 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Presented with the Chocolate Factory Theater at Abrons Arts Center, “Distances” is more interesting than illuminating. ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

"A remarkable journey, one that illuminates the humanity in us all," said Bharti Kirchner in a Seattle Times review. Local books: fighting smallpox, losing memory and a return to doctoring 2011-06-14T00:47:03Z

His emotional through-line tracks so completely in song that his personality is illuminated almost as much by the notes on a scale as words in a script. Review | ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Kennedy Center is sheer melodious pleasure 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

Classical music has been surprisingly slow to embrace podcasting, a medium ideally suited to illuminate its sounds and stories. Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

The project is meant to illuminate “the long history of black organizing,” she said. Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Far more compelling are Lead Pencil’s earlier monumental drawings of collapsing nighttime landscapes illuminated by artificial light. 2017 California-Pacific Triennial at OCMA: The art of building up (and tearing down) 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Christiane not remembering her sentences was an illuminating moment of the gravity of what they were experiencing in there. Could you stay sane on Mars? Real-life mission simulator put six people to the test in "Red Heaven" 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Mercury's music never faltered during his career, and part of his continuing popularity can be accredited to the reinvention of his stage fashions to suit and illuminate the music. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Britney Spears is a child of pornification, and her life story so far illuminates the power and influence of raunch culture. Britney Spears is a cautionary tale of pornification 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

The progress of the naked body through photography is the subject of “Naked Before the Camera,” a resonant and illuminating if sometimes fraught exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z

The Universe Within may not quite deliver on the promise of its opening pages, but digressions such as these illuminate the story of discovery in unexpected and hugely enjoyable ways. The Universe Within by Neil Shubin – review 2013-02-01T07:00:02Z

The Boy, for example, will explain his action: “The Boy takes from his satchel an illuminated page.” Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

An exhibition displaying everything in the catalog would be a once-in-a-lifetime event and a richly illuminating meditation on the classic Arcadian myth of pastoral bliss and what it means for the modern world. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z

The similarity in religious traditions is also emphasized in an accompanying miniature exhibition in an adjacent gallery, called “Scriptorium” — the “place where scribes write and illuminate books or scrolls.” Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z

But anyone willing to log off Instagram long enough to read “The Every” already knows all this, which makes the novel feel more smug than illuminating. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, Sexton echoes and complicates Josephine’s experience in each of the later two story lines in ways that feel both historically accurate and socially illuminating. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Macdonald carved a face which could be that of a child or an old man, simultaneously illuminated by innocence and exuding wisdom. Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z

Actually, this is underselling what a consistently entertaining and emotionally illuminating show this is. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The lights are dimmed in the last gallery to recreate an era when only firelight and candlelight illuminated a room. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z

In her review for The Times, Jeannette Catsoulis described the film an “offbeat attempt to illuminate the church’s psychological grip on its members” that “relies on a shaggy, meandering charm.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘CMA Best of the Fest’ and ‘Foodie Love’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Fifty-six micro gas tubes on the dial and an illuminated rotating inner bezel enable effortless night readability. $3,700. Water Watches 2010-05-10T20:00:00Z

There are illuminating moments, however, such as when Amir receives a visit from his wife Maryam. ‘Children of the Jacaranda Tree’: The legacy of repression on generations of Iranians 2013-06-27T22:22:48Z

The camera picks them up in ambient half-light, illuminated here and there by the bright, annoying flicker of mobile phones. Deep and meaningful: Roman Ond?k's Time Capsule 2011-03-15T21:30:01Z

How will the writers of Romper illuminate its mysteries? Bustle Has a Baby 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

This approach helps illuminate Gandhi’s time in South Africa. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Gandhi Before India’ 2014-05-09T18:11:37Z

The Olympic flame does not illuminate each event equally. Amid the Fury of the Olympics, the Zen of the Trampoline 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

We walked the quiet streets illuminated by lights like droplets of ice on every branch of the footpath trees. Best overseas breaks at Christmas and new year: readers’ travel tips 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, Arvelo effectively illuminated the shell with projected dewdrops and leaves. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

While Biskupic sheds light on when and how Roberts made that decision, she is less illuminating on why. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Quammen — like the journalist Laurie Garrett in her illuminating and encyclopedic book “The Coming Plague” — shows in these pages that the reality of the virus is horrifying without any apocalyptic embellishment. ‘Ebola,’ a History by David Quammen 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet Ms. Jones, in her first Broadway appearance in four years, is as illuminating as ever, confirming her reputation as an actress of not only formidable charisma but also meticulous craft. | 'Mrs. Warren's Profession': ?Tis No Pity She?s a C.E.O. 2010-10-04T02:01:00Z

Most, though, were new — an illuminating peek at new technologies, new ingredients, and a brave new world of home baking possibilities. We tasted 10 vegan butters in the name of science 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

Divided into seven geographic regions, the book, published in April by Overcup Press, illuminates how liquor laws — and implicitly, attitudes toward alcohol itself — vary across the country. Saluting the red, white and brew: ‘The Field Guide to Drinking in America’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Night skiers also have another great opportunity on Saturday when Squaw Valley, half an hour’s drive south on the Lake, illuminates its long runs with a new high contrast lighting system. What to Do in Lake Tahoe 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Evans, who died in 1988, was a composer-arranger of nearly boundless vision, with a gift for blending timbres in distinct and illuminating ways. Music Review: Gil Evans Project at the Jazz Standard 2013-05-15T21:10:30Z

We learn the most about Totenberg and Roberts, including an illuminating look at the Democratic political dynasty in which Roberts grew up. The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Lester’s Aldridge, illuminated by footlights, takes us through the fabled handkerchief scene of “Othello,” it stirs up an excitement that frightens. Theater Review: ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience 2014-04-01T13:23:28Z

But the orchestra; the superb quartet of vocal soloists; the powerful, precise San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the crisp Pacific Boychoir are part of a misbegotten theatrical presentation that confounds far more than it illuminates. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Stars illuminate the darkness as a thin coat of hoarfrost begins to form on the grass outside my window. A book at bedtime: the rise of sleep story apps 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

But the sole public statement on the matter from Steven Spielberg, who directed another of the film’s segments, remains illuminating. ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ and the Deadly Accident That Plagued It 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z

Still, the peaks Mr. Zorn achieved were compelling, and the whole exercise provided illuminating access to the impulsive workings of a limitless, tireless creative mind. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z

I spoke to Sanders about the abuse she overcame, its psychological consequences, the patterns it illuminates about other survivors and how we can address the issue on a political, cultural and individual level. Sex trafficking “happens in everybody’s backyard”: A survivor busts the biggest myths and offers advice on how to keep kids safe 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Stranded, another lilting waltz, illuminated with golden horns, earns their place in the timeline of classics. The Walkmen – review 2012-06-14T17:11:32Z

Brown’s analysis of key works is illuminating, but his claim that Henry was “our finest letter writer, our outstanding 19th-century historian,” remains open for debate. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

The chromatic back and forth animated by the coral illuminates the issues of class, work and privilege inherent in the selection of paintings. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z

Mr. Anikushin played with assurance and flair throughout, illuminating the dramatic rhythms and cinematic sweep of the first movement and imbuing the soulful third movement with a poetic spirit. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z

Landscape lighting at nearby residences illuminated rainbow lawn signs thanking health care and other essential workers. Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

As the musical begins, families of twos and threes — made up of the community performers — walk on a stage filled with cherry blossom trees and a bridge illuminated by a violet-purple light. With ‘As You Like It,’ Public Works Aims for a Reflection of Humanity 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Britain's most revered TV naturalist David Attenborough, 90, is returning to present a sequel to "The Blue Planet" documentary series, 16 years after the original illuminated the depths of the world's oceans. Attenborough, 90, to present BBC "Blue Planet" sequel 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

The details are illuminating, especially the hooks and bars on the back. The Costumes in Modern Dance’s Attic 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But while the abandonment of enchantment is often illuminating, occasionally it ties Schwarz in knots. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

That single sentence, like a spotlight, illuminated her road ahead, should she continue to see me. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z

They look like visions of an earlier age, illuminated by gaslight. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Still, Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others, and her depiction of aging is viscerally affecting. If the Bleak South Dakota Plains Don’t Break Them, Their Family Just Might 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

When creating the pirate hideout Skull Rock, Lowery tried to evoke the underground mines, in a cavernous space illuminated by lava, where the film’s Temple of Doom was located. What Do ‘Candyman’ and ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Have in Common? A Director Explains. 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

It also illuminates the thoughtful, questing nature of a book by Mr. Lapine that has sometimes been dismissed as too glib. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

As the sun’s last rays illuminate the columns of skyscrapers, Jeffrey reflects: “I didn’t need heaven’s light. I had the boy’s cries of wonder.” The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Leaving the screening room, I encountered one of Aitken’s installations — three cast resin phone booths illuminated from within. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Filmed outdoors and illuminated by what seem to be fusillades of light —-car headlights seen though pouring rain — it catches a traditional street fiesta in progress. Puerto Ricans Expand the Scope of ‘American Art’ at the Whitney 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

He illuminates the often insular music, and the far-from-insular social history, of an organization devoted to finding an original musical voice of black musicians who immigrated from the South to the South Side of Chicago. Elders and the next generation convene at the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Light illuminates the geometric pattern of hearts and triangles within Shuri’s cloak. In ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ One Scene Celebrates and Commemorates 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

His work is filled with observations such as: “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.” In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

A breathtaking account of the raising and training of a young ­goshawk illuminates two complex natures: the ­author’s and the bird’s. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

At the East Hampton home of Suzanne Anker, an artist who established the Bio-Art Laboratory at the School of Visual Arts in New York, three illuminated, galvanized boxes of seedlings sat atop pedestals. A Drive-By Art Show Turns Lawns and Garages Into Galleries 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

The aliens’ musings over human biology and its contribution to society are illuminating: The most valuable thing about humanity, they argue, is a literal cancer on the species. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Icarus’ and ‘Rachel Getting Married’ 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Anka Lupes, the costume designer, came up with the ingenious idea of lighting the actual costumes the characters wear during the lunar excursion, which included three dancers in white tights twirling illuminated hoops. 2010-01-21T05:36:00Z

To illuminate her technique she pointed to the scene, early in Bring Up the Bodies, in which Cromwell, from a window, watches Jane Seymour walking with Henry in the garden of Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel discusses Thomas Cromwell's past, presence and future 2012-08-15T14:17:24Z

But while there are some obvious connections to be made, the distinctions between Ms. Goldin’s work and the average smartphone diarist are just as illuminating. Nan Goldin Wants You to Know She Didn’t Invent Instagram 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

But once more through exquisite and, above all, illuminating performances, Christie worked considerable magic. William Christie, with small Les Arts Florissants group, works magic 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

As Todd views Walt from behind, a large white safe is illuminated. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Like its predecessor, Miller’s new book, “Circe,” illuminates known stories from a new perspective. Turning Circe Into a Good Witch 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Reading these pieces is like walking down a street at dusk and glancing into people's illuminated living rooms. Habitats by Constance Rosenblum – review 2013-07-19T16:59:00Z

The Folio contains several handwritten notes, which may illuminate how the plays were performed in Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare Folio found in France 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Historian Martha S. Jones illuminates the stories of those whose activism laid the groundwork for change and paints a more complete picture of the forces that shaped our democracy. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

This is the biography of a medieval manuscript, the Zeytun Gospels, illuminated by an Armenian artist. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

The lanterns, illuminated with LED candles, will be set afloat in the Paul Milstein Reflecting Pool. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 18-24 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Morgan hired a lighting designer, Linnaea Tillett to enhance the nighttime presence of the McKim building — previously illuminated only by streetlights. Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J.P. Morgan’s Side Yard 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

To be clear: These films do an outstanding job of threading viewers through their respective arguments, illuminating the effects of local and state legislation and giving voice to citizens living with their fallout. Perspective | Documentaries aren’t journalism, and there’s nothing wrong with that 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The philosophical challenge in Jennings’s smart script was to convey the convergences — how overcoming one’s anxiety around beehives might illuminate other contemporary worries. What does a theater company do when it can’t make theater? Make a film. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Even at its most opaque, Mr. Moore’s willfully bewildering portrait of the changing English landscape of some two centuries ago is illuminated by the commitment of a company that avoids the crippling self-seriousness of “Salomé.” Sharing Joy and Sacrifice from the Barber Shop Chair 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

In “Strange Nation,” J. Gerald Kennedy constructs an incisive reading of 19th-century literature that profoundly illuminates the dark, troubling underside of American culture. To understand the rise of a certain orange-haired politician, look back to Edgar Allan Poe 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

In both, the dancers, lost in their own worlds, take up space with splayed arms as they illuminate arresting angles of the hips, the spine. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Those scenes are meant to illuminate Bosch — to give us information about what drives him, in one instance, and what holds him back, in another — but they’re just distractions. ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Review: More of the Same (Good) Thing 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

This selection includes pictures of RVs aglow in the Florida near-jungle and a haunted forest scene with a Buddhist temple illuminated in the distance. Review | In the galleries: At American University Museum, a world of atmosphere 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The Seattle photographer's beautifully illuminated and composed images of warehouses, grain elevators and rail junctions are on show in "Artificial Daylight." 12 top entertainment picks for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 2, 2012 2012-08-22T23:14:07Z

This is perhaps the first exhibition to document so clearly that, far from being a niche genre, illuminated books were for hundreds of years in the mainstream of the development of Western art. Fitzwilliam Museum Celebrates the Birth and Glory of Color Manuscripts 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

After the fall of communism, her earlier films were rediscovered, and “Daisies” has taken its place among the essential movies of the ’60s, a bolt of liberatory lightning that illuminates future possibilities. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Overcooked bacon is a clear danger here, despite the illuminating timer dial. Kitchen gadgets review: Bacon Express – this toaster for bacon is the abomination we deserve 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

In the artist’s brilliantly illuminated studio hung a two-panel painting titled “White Over Black III,” a white vertical rectangle overlapping a slightly larger black one. Ellsworth Kelly, Abstract to the End 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

About three miles north, Light the Way, an installation illuminating the University of the Incarnate Word, runs through Jan. 6. Christmas (on the Cheap) in January 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Side characters, including dogs, get a lot of screen time — which is charming, if not always illuminating — while some plot moments rush by, particularly in Part 3. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Thomas Doherty’s illuminating new “Show Trial” presents readers with the tumultuous state of labor relations in the American film industry that led to several investigations into Hollywood, culminating in 1947. Review | When Hollywood caved to the House Un-American Activities Committee 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The Providence dinner party features tense moments that illuminate both the Bloom marriage and Evelyn and Roberta’s relationship, but the scene also comically conjures personal foibles and social awkwardness. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the controversy also illuminated a serious — and largely ignored — urban issue: the soaring number of feral cats and dogs, and cities’ decreasing ability to deal with them. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z

BBC Four controller Richard Klein said the station was "proud to broadcast some of his classic works alongside rare and illuminating archive interviews". BBC celebrates Britten centenary 2012-09-11T09:42:31Z

A concomitant desire to understand or at least illuminate the mechanisms and limits of freedom moves insistently through the pages of “Transit.” In 'Transit,' Rachel Cusk continues to slyly blur the lines that surround fiction 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

As seen in the video below, the LEDs sometimes illuminate in shimmering bands like sunlight on top of waves. S.F. Bay Bridge becoming huge art installation 2013-02-16T22:00:00Z

A flattened, vertiginous perspective and an illuminated sky unsettle the viewer. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

When I peeked below the glasses to watch bits of the performance without AR, there was nothing particularly imaginative or illuminating about this “Parsifal.” Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

“We upped the contrast,” he said, explaining that the lights were there not only to illuminate the path but also to “make you feel like you’re in a dentist’s chair.” Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The evening, in point of fact, is far more noteworthy for the manner in which it tells its story than for the issues it illuminates. ‘Colossal’ at Olney Theatre Center aims for the goal post, and succeeds

The point of such lists—their pleasure and their limit—is the element of self-portraiture; they’re far more illuminating about their authors than about the movies in question. Choosing the Best American Movies 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Food diaries as school assignments can illuminate how varied access to fresh food can be. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

A network of dangling cream-colored strings serves as a background set; an illuminated white platform, strewed with flowers and petals, is the staging area. Music Review: ‘Sumeida’s Song’ at Here Arts Center 2013-01-10T22:30:02Z

It makes for an illuminating change, but in the current roster of productions, there’s a clearer sense of one pair of eyes and hands deftly presiding over the proceedings. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

“I would hope that I illuminated the human experience,” Bassett said. Angela Bassett on ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’ at 25 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

Every so often, a ray of sunshine pierces the gloom, illuminating a small urban patch. ‘Weathering With You’ Review: Letting the Sun Shine In 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Ono will travel from her home in New York to Iceland on Lennon's birthday to light the Imagine Peace Tower, an illuminated memorial. Lennon still helping me, Yoko Ono says 2010-09-03T18:07:00Z

Asked what ties these three works together in concert, Bronfman says it is actually the things that separate them from one another that is illuminating. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z

“Seeing Loud” especially illuminates Basquiat’s career as a performer and musician, notably with the band Gray, a “noise band,” as Ms. Adler put it, that she recalled rehearsing in the apartment. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Music as Means, Muse and Medium 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

They're illuminated by a selection of 36 drawings and prints and seven panel paintings, including a large altarpiece from Lisbon centered on the drama of Christ being lowered from the cross. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

It can illuminate the breadth and depth of my ignorance — of some macroeconomic phenomenon, of some collective delusion among a large group of people, of some baffling technological endeavor. There’s a GameStop Book, Already 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

And in this case to illuminate a little-known page from it. 'Invisible Front' reveals same fight for freedom 70 years ago 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian His screenplays have illuminated the private lives of leaders such as Richard Nixon, Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. Peter Morgan in talks to develop Hugh Hefner biopic 2012-07-18T11:02:54Z

“God Save Texas” “is both an apologia and an indictment: an illuminating primer for outsiders who may not live there but have a surfeit of opinions about those who do,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

A few feet from the small audience and illuminated by overhead fluorescent bars, Mr. Dillane delivers the cycle from memory, changing his spot with each section break. Music Review: ?Four Quartets? at the Clark Studio Theater - Review 2011-11-09T23:07:59Z

It can be a program that illuminates odd corners of the repertoire, or one that brings new fire to the best-known chestnut. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Its quest to illuminate is foiled, though, by that bane of biographical performance: tedious exposition of a life we know too well. Finding Some Treasures at FringeNYC 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

But the ultimate fate of Ishtar and its creator yield the most illuminating insights. Ishtar at 30: is it really the worst movie ever made? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, canvases are displayed alongside furniture of the same period, white-marble busts illuminated dramatically against dark charcoal walls. A new Amsterdam – and a new Rijksmuseum 2013-04-14T05:30:02Z

If I squeeze that memory tightly with my adult hands, it starts to crumble; fairies twirling in sunlight become illuminated dust. The parasites inside my mother were both real and spiritual 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

Chandor faded the screen to black — or rather, to white, the brightness of the movie screen illuminating the theater. Spoiler alert: These movies offer no closure 2013-12-18T23:03:45Z

But the pastel houses lining the harbor there are just as picturesque as the postcards suggest, especially on those long summer days when the clear northern light illuminates this lovely, near-perfect city. Copenhagen: What to See and What to Skip 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

His theocratic worldview, combined with his immersion in the world of "Berserk," helps to solve the mystery of his cryptic, final tweet and illuminate his possible motive for mass murder. Exclusive: Inside accused Annapolis shooter’s alt-right theology of mass murder 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

“Behold, America” illuminates how much history takes place in the gap between what people say and what they do. How ‘America First’ and ‘American Dream’ Went From Hazy Sentiments to Loaded Clichés 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

But if jazz is at last partly about history, then Mr. Robinson’s show was as illuminating an event as any bebopper could have done. Smokey Robinson Delights Montreal Jazz Festival 2010-06-29T16:40:00Z

Together, the books recounted the private trials of one Mississippi family while illuminating more than 50 years of troubled racial history. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

While the fear is that dances will diminish with age, sometimes they get better or just change in illuminating ways. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

While Sepetys clearly details the harshness of the prison camps, she also illuminates the unquenchable hope of many prisoners. 'Between Shades of Gray' reveals horror and hope 2011-06-04T02:35:04Z

Here the chorus proves overwhelming as the sun is depicted shining overhead, like an immense illuminated art-nouveau flower. Schoenberg’s ‘Gurrelieder’ in Full Glory 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Neverforgotten” illuminates how a child defines identity, loss and what is inevitable in life. Like Riding a Bike: A Middle Grade Novel Asks, What if We Do Forget How? 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The dafatir are novel, echoing Baghdad’s past as an important source of illuminated Islamic manuscripts. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

At night its ornate red brick facade is dramatically illuminated, and an open-air terrace fronts the entrance in warm weather. Bites : Restaurant Report: Katz Orange in Berlin 2012-11-15T20:31:00Z

Just as illuminating is the exhibition’s section of works by “Thomas Hart Benton’s Circle.” Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In equal measures intelligent, playful, ambitious and moving, the program, performed by three gifted sopranos, illuminated the shape-shifting power of the human voice. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z

The great novelist of Paris, Emile Zola, famously illuminated that city's belly in a novel titled "Le Ventre de Paris." 'London Underground': Ackroyd's account of life beneath the streets 2011-12-01T00:46:04Z

The music, writes Swed, featured a “welcoming power” and reflected on the idea “that national spirit can and maybe must be illuminated by spirituality not as dogma but as something more universally unifying.” Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Across the stadium, there is a man-made lake ringed with illuminated statues representing the orishas. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

That said, the song provides one last moment of weirdness: Cameron-a-likes and illuminated feather boas both roaring along, word-perfect, to a disco version of a Pink Floyd song about rock star alienation and moneyed ennui. Scissor Sisters 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z

However much those assertions rankle historians, we can't, as the illuminating classicist Mary Beard likes to say, get rid of ancient Rome. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

In light of the new year, Johnson illuminates actionable ways to start building healthy behaviors based on your unique contexts. An "anti-diet" dietitian’s advice for well-being 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

The time code shows it’s just minutes before 10pm and the headlights of the police car illuminate the street. 16 Shots: behind a shocking film about an unlawful police shooting 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

But I can’t think of any that are more essential or illuminating. Theater Review: ‘The Designated Mourner’ by Wallace Shawn, at Public Theater 2013-07-22T02:00:02Z

The dressing rooms are phenomenal, huge mirrors illuminated with bright bulbs. Critical Shopper: In Greenpoint, Along Brooklyn?s Fashion?s Route 2012-04-10T16:30:05Z

In 2010, during a concert presented as part of a Beethoven symphony cycle at Lincoln Center, he reset his ensemble differently for the Sixth and Ninth Symphonies, to illuminating effect. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

Rousso’s study of how France strained to reëstablish small-L liberal continuity across an autocratic interlude struck me as instructive and perhaps illuminating for the path ahead. The Deep Irony of a Scholar of Vichy France Being Detained in Houston 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

But the goal here is in skewering stereotypes, rather than illuminating the reality underneath. Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z

There’s a crucial scene near the midpoint of the Canadian drama, “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open,” and it brilliantly illuminates the experiential chasm between its two leads. ‘The Body Remembers’ Review: One Prospers, the Other Doesn’t 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

They’re on display at Americas Society, illuminated by light boxes in a dramatically darkened gallery. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Amis’s explanation of why Larkin is not “a poet’s poet” but “a novelist’s poet” is so illuminating, so useful to a reader, that it almost justifies the book all by itself. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Each illuminated daffodil represents one of the Marie Curie nurses working across the United Kingdom. Garden of illuminated daffodils light up London 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Donald Glover may not be a direct disciple, but his path to success — which now includes the Golden Globe-nominated series, “Atlanta,” in addition to his musical output — was illuminated by Bey’s multifaceted brilliance. Yasiin Bey was one of rap’s brightest stars. His farewell concert was a stirring reminder. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Scrooge’s boyhood misery and his relationship with his sister would be illuminating additions in a production that attracts children. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z

Sober, none of the music was more interesting, effective, illuminated or illuminating in this space than it would have been elsewhere. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

For me, talking to the vendor at the farmer's market or finding a local CSA-produce box is often more illuminating than trying to track down the sources behind grocery store offerings. What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s been an illuminating week for Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling Shoots Down Fan Theory About Dumbledore's Past 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The animals are there to illuminate human behaviour. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

The idea was simply to see whether we could sense characteristics among the wines that might illuminate differences in their various terroirs. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Allstar Just before the first world war, a penniless pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago had one of those eureka moments that occasionally illuminate the Anglo-American literary landscape. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z

Perhaps, rather, it illuminates a larger truth – that people are all different, all individual and all subject to unique desires and emotions. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z

There have been some inside accounts illuminating the mechanics behind the massive plan. The Trump White House provided reporters with a gusher of leaks. With Biden, everything’s changed. 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

After writing down your thoughts, you roll up the sheet of paper and insert the scroll into an illuminated grid of circular openings. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

But just as the show is about to illuminate a great truth, it backs all the way off, leaving us stranded. Review: ‘The Hot Zone’ Stays Tepid 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

Bolick’s reporting illuminates her autobiography, and her autobiography illuminates her reporting. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

But by massaging the erotic springs of violence so vital to war, and stripping away all norms of decency, Kipling illuminates the depths of our darkest fantasies of revenge. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

“When you raise it against the light, it magically illuminates,” Kasliwal says. Siddharth Kasliwal introduces his first collection for the Gem Palace 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

How the two halves illuminate each other is left obscure. ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ Review: Farm to Table, but Not in That Order 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Candles illuminate from within recessed brick walls adorned with smoked mirrors and lined with long couches covered with velvet pillows, and gold-crown molding frames the narrow space. Bo?te: At Red Velvet Lounge, Liquor-laced Cupcakes Rule 2010-04-23T19:29:00Z

Before me was a Gothic dining hall nearly the length of a football field, filled with long wooden tables illuminated by reading lamps. Journeys: British Dorm Rooms Substitute for Hotels 2010-07-31T05:15:00Z

SAT Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fundraiser, illuminated balloons, shirts, refreshments for walkers who raise $100 or more, 5:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-21T23:35:04Z

Bennett illuminatingly imagines the Queen being at first daunted by Jane Austen: so far distant in terms of rank, she is unable to appreciate the – to her – relatively small social divisions between Austen's characters. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z

Lozano-Hemmer is mindful of light's power to intimidate as well as illuminate and the relationship of searchlights with both celebration and entrapment. Artwork records words, beams them to Philly skies 2012-09-16T18:16:04Z

The Independent called it a "taut, illuminating two-hour show," while the generally conservative Daily Telegraph praised it as "thought provoking and admirably evenhanded." London theater turns England's riots into a drama 2011-11-24T16:08:14Z

At his best, Jarvis wonderfully recaptures the antic, convivial spirit of “The Pickwick Papers” while illuminating its sources and paying eloquent tribute to the gifted, conflicted man who played an instrumental role in its creation. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Somehow, all these encounters fail to illuminate Parker’s fragile emotional state. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Our James Poniewozik called it “an example of the show at its best: an episode with an ingenious premise and structure that uses it mainly to illuminate the characters.” A Behind The Scenes Look At One of Community?s Best Episodes 2011-10-18T11:55:17Z

She expires, peacefully, in his arms—and then a spotlight illuminates the star-crossed lovers, and a crowd of Delos bigwigs in evening attire applauds. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

She hung a lightbulb inside it to illuminate the interior spaces and dramatise its endless shadows. Saloua Raouda Choucair: modernism off the map 2013-04-15T16:51:51Z

But the work of getting here has been in many ways a muddy slog, as Tharp has chronicled in an illuminating series of blog posts for the New York Times. Twyla Tharp’s unceasing quest to reveal truth in human movement 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Lawrence in Arabia” is a fascinating book, the best work of military history in recent memory and an illuminating analysis of issues that still loom large today. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z

"She took the sad and tragic events of the fall of Vietnam and managed to illuminate a series of uplifting events. I was very surprised and deeply moved." Rory Kennedy recounts the 1975 fall of Saigon in new film 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Both have first-rate voices that illuminate their characters. At Seattle Opera, a fun and feisty trip through the woods with ‘Hansel and Gretel’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The encounter has an unstable complexity that illuminates some of Laney’s damage; for the first time, she and the movie feel like they’re moving as one. Review: ‘I Smile Back’ Traces a Mother’s Addiction 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The most successful associations allow work and concept to illuminate one another. Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

For this show, the gallery is nearly dark, illuminated mostly by a screen that displays white-on-black video and two industrial lights. Review | In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

If there's one thing the world doesn't especially need right now, it's another project designed to illuminate the genius of anybody who was in the Beatles. Watch: The Cure covers 'Hello Goodbye' for Paul McCartney tribute 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Garfield and Ms. Omagbemi, with rough and tender attack, internalized his words, illuminating not just the dancer but also the creature within. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z

From my bag I produced a handful of Ikea tea candles and set them on ledges around the cave, illuminating the lush mosses and ferns. November is hot-spring season in the wild woods 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Peppered with illuminating anecdotes from famous siblings and from the author's own life, this book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in human relationships. 'The Sibling Effect' charts the enduring influence of brothers and sisters 2011-10-05T23:03:03Z

We move about the space as winds howl, shadows are illuminated and headlights glow. Reykjavik 2010-08-27T08:00:00Z

Last week, Billboard ran an illuminating article about the process by which a band or individual musician gets elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Cheap Trick is one of the best rock bands ever — why aren’t they in the Hall of Fame? 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

She times her jumps with the strobe so she is only illuminated in midair. ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Mane took the stage shortly after midnight, his jewelry and million-dollar smile illuminating the whole space. Gucci Mane, taking a spin through his catalogue, shows why he’s idolized by rappers and fans 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

How will the underside of the building be detailed and illuminated? Peter Zumthor's L.A.-LACMA vision in need of update 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

With his curiosity piqued, he pored over books including “Gay New York” by George Chauncey and “The Gay Metropolis” by Charles Kaiser that documented New York’s forgotten gay landmarks and illuminated a lost gay subculture. You Could Be in a Gay Bar Right Now and Not Even Know It 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

So too do nuggets of information which illuminate and explain. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z

Whereas the pillar is heavy and blunt, expressing power and dominion over the “new” land, the oliphant is light and almost glows in its illuminated case. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ethan Allen’s table was all about pink, brightly illuminated and flanked by flamingos. Scene City: A Dizzying Display at the Dining By Design Benefit 2012-03-28T16:41:12Z

In “Migraine,” Katherine Foxhall delivers a thorough and illuminating history of migraine that traces our endeavors to understand, treat and eliminate this painful condition we still know little about. Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

Diffuse moonlight illuminated the beach 100 feet below, the sand extending as far as I could see. Explorer: Surfing and ?Roughing It? on Southern California Beaches 2011-07-22T18:59:56Z

Gathered on fluffy mats surrounding the dancers, little spectators will first experience summer in the form of puppets, including illuminated fireflies and soft caterpillars. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The pages became a highlight of the Getty’s collection of illuminated manuscripts. Legal settlement with Armenian church lets Getty Museum keep prized medieval Bible pages 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Shadow details leap out, flesh tones glow with life, and every strand of Judy Garland’s auburn hair seems individually illuminated in George Folsey’s meticulous cinematography. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z

Nearby, a stretch limousine idled, its passenger area illuminated by a black light and filled with champagne glasses. 2010-01-30T01:36:00Z

As an opener, Merkler performed in almost complete darkness; a sensor strapped to her stomach detected her breathing and illuminated a light bulb overhead with every inhale. | Adam Scher Dance Company 2011-02-02T16:44:11Z

What they don't get is interesting or illuminating. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "The Gentlemen," here are the worst films of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

David Gladden’s steel pillar contains four illuminated panels of constantly changing single colors; the piece suggests a traffic signal with a trippy mind of its own. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The new project is not simply to illuminate recent events, but to marshal the alchemy of the silver screen to meaningfully amend them. The Unreality of Racial Justice Cinema 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

I’m currently choosing colors to illuminate an outdoor events area at the Peninsula Hotel. A Lighting Designer on Lighting Hotels 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

And each of these characters is a sharp observer of those around him or her, so many more lives are illuminated as well. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z

“Mad Men” has always been about nostalgia: how easily it can be exploited; how looking back can operate as both a drug and a mirror, a sedative and something that can illuminate the present. The Original, Resonant, Existentially Brilliant “Mad Men” Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The latter perform with visual props called homemade crankies, felt rolls that tell the stories of ballads in pictures, unfurled like old-fashioned movies and illuminated from behind. Carolinian banjo man Riley Baugus tops folk fest 2011-12-08T21:43:03Z

The resultant conversation wound up perhaps a bit … scattered, if illuminating in its own way. Cannes 2015: 'Youth' finds Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel getting cheeky 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

However the reader may regard the author’s own historical baggage, the book puts the problems of today’s world and America’s role in that increasingly interconnected and increasingly riven world into useful — and often illuminating — context. In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

There are fewer central London landmarks than you get with the London Eye, but you do get the thrill of crossing the Thames, and an illuminating overview of the changing Docklands landscape. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z

It is a rare playful moment in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's nasty yet startlingly illuminating new production of "Così fan Tutte" and a tiny surprise, which I have now spoiled. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Dutoit did his best to illuminate Ravel’s orchestral colors in the transparent Disney acoustic, giving a good snap to the dance rhythms. Charles Dutoit and L.A. Phil dig deep into the Ravel archive 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

She’s not insensitive: Art also illuminates the ambiguity of the way that beauty and horror, sympathy and repugnance, can exist side by side. Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

It was some of the best Thai food I’ve had outside Thailand, but it was also illuminating for other reasons. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Q: Care to share any funny or illuminating anecdotes from your Galapagos video shoot? A behind-the-scenes look at 360-degree video 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

She can’t quit either one, but she can warp and examine them in illuminating ways. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Baptists in America” is an illuminating book, if at times dense. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

A standout in the redesigned Halls is the Minerals and Light room, with displays that aim to show how light illuminates and interacts with gems and minerals, including those hidden deep within rock. A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

But formal quibbles pale in comparison to the content he’s illuminating. Review | In ‘Nobody Speak,’ the free press, not just a website, faces a grave challenge 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

His “The Urge to Mark,” now at Montgomery College’s King Street Gallery, illuminates cave paintings that date to some 40,000 years before neon’s early-20th-century commercialization. Review | In the galleries: ‘Hard and Soft’ juxtaposes the delicate and the durable 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

In Jack’s “Confessions,” as in Augustine’s, the artistic corpus and the physical corpus illuminate each other. “Confessions of the Fox” Is a Cunning Metafiction of Vulpine Versatility 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Festival highlights included Friday Night's Nokia Lumia Live showcase with Reverend & the Makers and an amazing light show with thousands of illuminated wristbands lighting up the whole of Devonshire Green. Tramlines keeps it free for all four years in a row 2012-07-24T06:01:02Z

For there, he says, they get a magnificent view of all the trees “illuminated by the glow of the rising sun”. Tree of the week: 'Our olive tree is very expressive. It tells you when it’s thirsty' 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Spalding illuminated the reasons – at a time of national crisis, with war blazing overhead – for Piper's choice of a consciously parochial art. In praise of the British art staycation 2010-08-04T14:43:00Z

Here, the growths of bacterial colonies shade an illuminated grid of agar-coated tiles with delicate, watercolorlike splotches of pink, yellow and gray. Please Smell the Art: Anicka Yi Will See That You Do 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The objective was to enhance the chromatic richness of the frescoes while improving the overall quality of the light to better illuminate the frescoes on the sidewalls of the chapel. Seeing the Sistine Chapel in a New Light 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s more crucial than ever to illuminate the breadth and depth of human experience,” he said. Rep. John Lewis: I hope my book inspires people to ‘speak up and speak out’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

I do overhear Maureen telling Jack: “We’ll leave every light in this place on overnight,” presumably to illuminate a path toward the outhouse, and by the final morning he is pining for a shower. In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Mom: Something seems to be amiss in your ideal family, but your angry daughters are not ready — or willing — to illuminate things for you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Daughters say their childhood was traumatic. Their mother is devastated. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Wine barrels in Prince Bishop's Court Cellar illuminated by candlelight. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

All three musicians played with commitment, deftly illuminating the work’s impressionistic hues. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Plays Turina and Ravel 2011-10-07T23:30:07Z

"I think a sequel is a waste of money and time — movies should illuminate new stories," director Francis Ford Coppola recently grumbled. 'X-Men,' 'Spider-Man' follow-ups thrive, but sequels aren't all equal 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

So Francis shows Merrick in varying degrees of shadow for the first half-hour — until a nurse stumbles upon him, at last fully illuminated by a skylight, and screams. Do Cinematographers Have a Signature? Let’s Try a Test 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

He coasted into his new album, “Views from the 6,” standout track “9” with images of Toronto’s CN Tower illuminating the backdrop behind him, and it was as good as forgotten. Review: Drake and Future co-headline at the Tacoma Dome 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

And from that point on, it’s like, the music is illuminated.” Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Years ago, Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy started writing a script that he hoped would illuminate her comic abilities. Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone on ‘Superintelligence’ and Living Comedy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare bestows the same range of possibilities to his characters, who retain a degree of mystery even as their histories and psychologies are illuminated. Race, inequality, polarized politics: Why Shakespeare's 1623 First Folio matters in 2016 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But in a strange and unfortunate way, Trump’s outburst illuminated something big: that American rappers are among the most influential voices in our democracy, and that their music is more significant than most. Review | With a sweep from Bruno Mars, the Grammys snub hip-hop — again 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Substantively speaking, Clinton came across as better informed and more skilled at illuminating her policy issues and discussing her 30 years of public service. Even Andy Cohen needed a shower: Watch what happens when Donald Trump turns a presidential debate into a reality TV nightmare 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

He illuminates his case studies by quoting authorities as diverse as Aristotle, Kierkegaard, and Tina Brown. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Improbably, the 8,000-square-foot main room, in dark hues illuminated by moody lighting, manages to convey both cool and cozy, aided by a smallish dining area in the center. Restaurant Report: Kazerne in the Netherlands 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

McEwan, too, has a gift for these kinds of charged, illuminated details, which he sets against unknowns that gather like deepening night. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

These flights of fancy illuminate just how much we see women as arm candy. The G7 was the final straw – world leaders’ wives should refuse to travel with their spouses 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

A good setting, like a good paragraph or a good sentence, hits the Trifecta—fleshes out the world, illuminates character, embroiders the larger themes. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

While illuminating how Fisher’s personal trauma catalyzed her wit, Weller shows that the life of this Tinseltown scion touched on major issues of our day. Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

It is al so a piece that illuminates much about Méliès's tragic personal life. Georges Méliès's Robinson Crusoé film resurfaces in Pordenone 2012-10-10T14:22:02Z

At the same time, your boyfriend deserves to be illuminated on your beliefs on sex before marriage, unless that conviction is also influenced by your ordeal. How do I tell my boyfriend I was raped? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Here new lighting illuminates a rejiggered arrangement of English paintings that harks back to the one that Frick had in mind when the mansion was being designed. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z

The tales navigate a framework of stark realism, embossed with flecks of treasured or upsetting memory, illuminating the experience of a Black woman growing up in a nation of maddening inequality. Review | Online festival highlights the powerful plays of undersung dramatist Adrienne Kennedy 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Gray doesn’t quite reject the anything-is-possible immigration story—the prospect of triumph is always there in “The Immigrant”—but he illuminates its corners, recounts its failures and its absences. David Denby: “The Immigrant,” “Belle” Reviews 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The deserted grand staircase of a Metropolitan Opera silenced by the pandemic, its Sputnik chandeliers with no crowds to illuminate. Our Favorite Arts Pictures of 2020 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Share’s notes, on the other hand, run to thirty-nine pages, and illuminate the poem’s embroidery of references—to sonata structure, Welsh prosody, Northumbrian history, sailing terms. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The production is steeped in a luminous and illuminating empathy that feels both uncommon and essential right now. Review: ‘Fulfillment Center’ Finds the Poetry in Missed Connections 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

As well as illuminating modern Indonesia, the process says much about history, its representation and its victors. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z

Lovers of Bellow’s novels will find familiar things illuminated in a different light. ‘Saul Bellow’s Heart’: Son looks back at his father 2013-05-08T21:05:21Z

He does, but what is illuminated are dark and disturbing secrets. Symphony brings back 'Bluebeard's Castle,' and the Chihuly sets 2012-05-10T20:29:12Z

Museums are valuable to the extent they link the past to the present and illuminate, and appraise, both. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

If the show were a satire of the artist as a comfortably middle-class tenured professor and soccer mom, it would be funny and possibly illuminating, but it’s not. Michelle Grabner 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

At night, the structure is closed to the public, but it is illuminated with a special lighting installation by Seam Design. | What Not to Miss at This Year’s London Design Festival 2013-09-14T17:23:59Z

But as even the letters inspired by today’s crisis remind us, letters have the primacy they do precisely because they tend to illuminate a great deal more than the author might have intended. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The book also illuminates what Johnson describes as “the toil behind an obscuring stereotype.” Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

She combs through letters, diaries, anthropology field notes, doctor’s notes and memoirs to create a “trellis of tiny scenes” that illuminate what mothering truly entailed throughout the last four centuries. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Bridgwater’s spectacular illuminated processions takes place on the first Saturday of November. 10 of the best winter festivals in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

That afforded her the rare opportunity to illuminate readers to respect the depth of complexity there is to Hawaii and its people, too often glossed over in the stereotypes of a hula-swaying, white-sanded honeymoon spot. Vowell takes on Hawaii's history but misses mark 2011-03-22T17:08:11Z

Certainly a lifetime of taste is more illuminating than whatever one read last week. The Virtues of Shelf-lessness 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mostly, though, the stories mesh, and often, one participant’s comments are later illuminated by another’s. Review | Revisiting ‘Imagine,’ in John Lennon’s own words and pictures 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

But this was still an evening of powerful, illuminating theater. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

To me, the most illuminating aspect of this book is that it’s absolutely humorless. Murder, Murder, Everywhere 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

He’s a birder, and there are tales illuminating the contrasts between them like when red squirrels moved into their attic, he trapped them. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z

Directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the film is a jaunty assemblage of interviews, public appearances and archival material, organized to illuminate its subject’s temperament and her accomplishments so far. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

It’s because the magic in magic realism has deep roots in the real, because it grows out of the real and illuminates it in beautiful and unexpected ways, that it works. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z

David Herskovits, Target Margin’s founding artistic director, leads his company in multiyear explorations of classic texts that can yield mind-bendingly illuminating results — and recently did, with an immersion into the plays of Eugene O’Neill. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

One illuminating episode from Season 1 begins by revealing Sheila’s unorthodox morning routine: She paints her perfect teeth yellow and covers her neat, blonde hair with a long, ratty, black wig. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

But that doesn’t mean it’s any more illuminating. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z

Eventually, a subplot involving Franz Kafka scurries into the story and offers a bit of cerebral intrigue — along with Krauss’s illuminating commentary on Kafka’s life and work. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

This is undoubtedly the work of a mature master, in such full command of her resources that she can focus simply on telling a story and illuminating characters. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

After all, Ms. Churchill, though several decades the senior of the 45-year-old Mr. McDonagh, is far more of an experimentalist, a writer who bends time and language into exotic and illuminating shapes. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

When I read the script, I saw he took the subject I didn’t know much about and illuminated it in a robust, heartfelt way. “Trump is kind of scary. I get the feeling he might actually pull it off”: Michael Shannon on “99 Homes,” the economic collapse and the eroding American Dream 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The curators often seem content to unearth a few modernist gems, create some illuminating juxtapositions and make local historical adjustments. Art Review: ‘A World of Its Own,’ Examining Photography, at MoMA 2014-02-06T22:33:50Z

His youngest establishment is Northern Italian, intimate and eye-catching, with illuminated streams of glass beads dangling from on high and whitewashed brick walls creating a cool cocoon. 10 top places to eat in Cleveland, for convention-goers and the rest of us 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

To an eclectic musical collage, the dancers coalesced and dispersed with glowing orbs in hand, at times using the props to illuminate one another. Ailey II Review: A Light in the Darkness 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he doesn’t illuminate how the myth relates to the documented bodysnatching from Black cemeteries by doctors, an elision which consigns warranted African-American fears to the realm of horror stories and folklore. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, so many illuminating sparks are set off by this show, mounted in celebration of the statue’s 125th anniversary, that its closing section about Lady Liberty comes as an anticlimax. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z

You illuminate the human condition and cultivate compassion and service and communication. Hooray for “worthless” education! 2014-03-27T17:07:00Z

These scenes are interesting and sometimes genuinely illuminating. Review: Okwui Okpokwasili’s ‘Bronx Gothic,’ From Stage to Screen 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

He then turned all the stage lights on to illuminate the players and said: "Tell me, do any of these guys look like terrorists?" as the crowd roared. Womad: 30 years of world music 2012-07-30T10:36:06Z

Such creatives might also know that when being tasked to create in the middle of a natural disaster when everyone is flying blind, attempting to successfully illuminate that blindness is a fool's errand. "Love in the Time of Corona" is not a drama worth catching 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

This hourlong production from Bond Street Theater, presented as part of the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, uses song, dance, puppetry and stilt walking to illuminate Earhart’s odyssey. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Its broadcasting booth is illuminated by a single glowing bulb, and its walls are covered in egg-carton-like soundproofing baffles. Review: ‘Radio Dreams’ Builds a Spiritual Home for Stateless Souls 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Four here show different combinations of trees, illuminated windows and street lights, blurred by evening mist or rain. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z

The telling, probably by design, illuminates much about the prince and his country, but little new about America. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Rather than being compiled by the editor or the publisher, all of the photographs were chosen by Moore, thereby illuminating the artist’s response to his subjects as much as they do the rooms themselves. Books 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Spindel elicited sharply defined, urgent playing that illuminated every mood of this haunting score, from the throbbing ostinatos and angry surges to meditative, eerie sweetness. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z

In the east, the sky glowed orange and crimson, and the light illuminated a sea of saltbushes, sweet grass and wind-rippled dunes. In Dubai, Flying With the Falcons 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Those feelings illuminated some unanticipated boundaries of where I define attractiveness in men and when I still crave traditional masculinity. My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

But it’s still sort of rare, like monks illuminating a manuscript or something. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z

The sun slices through my office window, illuminating a thousand shimmering dust particles in the air. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

"People are putting up these major shows where they want to just illuminate architecture." New arts installation will beam 'the Bean' 2012-02-07T17:56:00Z

It illuminates just how difficult it is to prosecute white-collar crimes. An Insider-Trading Tale That Reads Like a Thriller 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Set designer Christina Smith created a house cleverly defined by movable screens, imaginatively lighted by Matt Scott with glowing lanterns that illuminated the Act I love duet to great effect. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ packs an emotional punch 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

It illuminates one of the reasons we look at art, or for that matter, go to art fairs like the Winter Antiques Show: to see something we haven’t seen before. Art Review: The Cornucopia Known as the Winter Antiques Show 2014-01-23T22:45:34Z

Long fluorescent tubes animate the display in white, red and black light, illuminating "Rodarte: States of Matter," a new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art that opens Friday. New exhibit shows Rodarte fashions as sculptures 2011-03-03T21:16:32Z

In execution, however, the results were less than illuminating. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven

That Kyra still pines for the good life is illuminated after Tom departs, in a wonderful scene that allows Beard, as Tom’s son, Edward, to make a lovely, heroic gesture. In London, stages are set for pleasure

Kauffman's stylish production is a perfect showcase for Schwartz's unique way of communicating how humor may inform and illuminate the messy, contradictory human condition. Review: Memory gets surreal in 'Somewhere Fun' 2013-06-05T18:20:09Z

“If the book’s purpose is to illuminate and chill, mission accomplished.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

I liked it not only for its facts and archival treasures, but also for its synthesis, which recognized and illuminated the complexities of Theodore, Franklin and, best of all, Eleanor. The best TV of 2014: ‘Americans,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and more

The Condor soon put up a 20-foot-tall illuminated sign carrying her likeness and, in time, the club became a state historical landmark. Carol Doda, who helped popularize topless entertainment, dies at 78 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Miles confronts a dilemma in her effort to illuminate the lives of Detroit’s enslaved people. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The point was twofold: to illuminate some of the sources Ives quoted in his sonatas and to show the kind of joyfully unkempt community music-making from which Ives took inspiration. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z

Now it also owns a rare Jewish illuminated manuscript from 1296, known as the Rothschild Pentateuch. Getty Museum Acquires a Rare, 700-Year-Old Torah 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

While this posed certain challenges for the show, it ultimately made for an illuminating and suspenseful episode. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Petry is the writer we have been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The oculus at the peak of the dome warmly illuminates the room, a perfect example of how light was as much a material for Goff as anything physical. Midwestern futurism 2012-08-26T23:00:00Z

Reviewing the novel for The Post, Anna Mundow wrote, “All is illuminated, at first dimly then starkly, but always brilliantly.” Perspective | Barack Obama’s summer reading list is everything we need right now 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” directed by Danya Taymor and extended through Nov. 10 at Playwrights Horizons, is hardly the first play to be hailed as illuminating our polarized political moment. A Play ‘Meant to Trouble’ From a Writer Raised in Conservatism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

Kevin knew institutions, and he knew how to illuminate them by his words, how to praise them and how to insist that they could do and be better.  Kevin Starr will never be replaced: William Deverell remembers the historian and author 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Eminently listenable and often illuminating, the 10-episode series is like a bonus feature for opera fans, and a welcoming entry point for newcomers. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Vanishing Pearls” is most illuminating when offering a historical perspective. Movie Review: ‘Vanishing Pearls’ Looks at the Deepwater Horizon Spill 2014-04-18T02:15:52Z

But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” — an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacist as well as his complex afterlife in American political culture. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Hollywood illuminates it and perpetuates it, but it is what this country is in some ways. Sally Field on What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

To me, the film is endlessly intricate, like an illuminated manuscript or a really good “Simpsons” episode. ‘Yellow Submarine’ & Me 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The brilliant violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, the New York Philharmonic’s artist in residence this season, has a gift for juxtaposing new and standard works in a way that illuminates both. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z

Extraordinary collection illuminating African American life from the antebellum period to the present. In Tallahassee, getting the party started for game day

Two small, illuminating exhibitions of work by Helen Frankenthaler at the Clark Art Institute, one of paintings and the other of woodcuts, together suggest nature lurks throughout the imagery of this ostensibly unyielding formalist. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Art is made by all sorts of people, everywhere, all the time, along many different paths, some of which are illuminated by these intriguing publications chosen by our critics. Best Art Books of 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gosling played the set energetically but with an unusual clarity, opting at times to illuminate Mr. Rzewski’s harmonies instead of letting the density of the textures cloud over the fine details. Music Review: New-Music Champion Pays a Call 2011-01-09T22:56:47Z

One piece of research Graham passes my way is the illuminating, if clumsily titled "Sexual Scripts Among Young Heterosexually Active Men and Women: Continuity and Change". How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Stuffed into this illuminated novel are books within books, including a facsimile of a 19th-century novel, complete with tissue-covered plates and a wormhole piercing every page. ‘Bats of the Republic’ review: Two intertwined and echoing stories 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Except here he’s trying to illuminate a multifaceted jewel that’s still spinning in the air, nowhere near its apogee. What Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Indeed, in cases all across the country, DNA has illuminated the criminal justice system's frailties, showing how confessions and eyewitness identifications can be faulty. 4 won't face retrial in 1994 Englewood killing 2012-01-18T06:00:00Z

Since 2000, when Ms. Hai Chang, 55, was named the gallery’s director, she has put it on the map by mounting small, strategically focused exhibitions that illuminate different aspects of Chinese art and life. The China Institute?s Curator Has Connections 2010-03-20T04:40:00Z

Toward that end, as the “La La Land” and “Moonlight” teams embraced each other amid the confusion on the Dolby Theatre stage Sunday night, an inescapable truth was illuminated with almost prophetic clarity. Amid the confusion of ‘Moonlight’s’ big win is a monumental moment for the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Set in a sleepy burg south of Memphis, the play illuminates, through Laurel’s dilemma, the ways in which sexual betrayal and racial animus converge toxically, unleashing resentments and prejudices that destroy lifelong friendships. Review | I’m not rejoicing over a play produced by the Kennedy Center. Here’s why. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

But Lu Xun's ambitions are far more general: to illuminate the social and political darkness in the China that he observed around him. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Her “Saturday School Lesson” is a recurring digital series in which she dissects recent comments and direct messages she’s received, with annotations to illuminate their fallacies. ‘Dear White Women’: The Public Classroom of Rachel Cargle 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Neat rings of light illuminate Max and Martin in turn, as each takes pen to paper. Theater Review: ‘Address Unknown,’ a Drama in Letters, at Gould Hall 2014-04-24T22:02:53Z

Subtle linked stories about two boys’ friendship, first published in Britain in 1981, illuminate family and community ties. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

This rapturous example of Turner at his most abstract and suggestive is a gold and bronze storm of light, the sun illuminating the spray of a waterfall, the atmosphere a misty veil of colour. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

Thant Myint-U has titled his reflective and illuminating new book “The Hidden History of Burma,” even though he gently suggests that the country’s past wasn’t so much obscured as it was hiding in plain sight. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

“Marseille” is a glorious fusion of Jamal’s lifelong artistic inclinations; its lofty retrospective glow illuminates his relentlessly curious progress. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

After last week's illuminating chat with Sarah Waters, this week's guest is one of the most compelling contemporary writers of non-fiction. Live webchat: Mark Lynas 2011-07-20T12:54:28Z

Disorder reigns after Lear divides his kingdom between his two grasping daughters, but Sher illuminates the reason in Lear’s madness with exquisite care for the meaning of every deranged utterance. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

There’s enough material here for a much longer novel, and, though Woodson’s prose is always carefully constructed, she’s sometimes so elliptical that complicated issues are illuminated only obliquely. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Mike takes a stack of cash from Jimmy and sprays it with a substance that glows when illuminated with ultraviolet light. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy acts honorably -- and it costs him 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

“We were looking forward to going north, to Mexico, where we would spring for a real hotel and a little luxury by way of compensation for all the rough—but illuminating—living we’d been doing.” Sunday Reading: Summer Travel 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

In the middle of a dark room illuminated only by strobe lights, hips roll and shoulders juke to the latest rap and hip-hop tracks. Jewel's Catch One disco's demise marks era's end for L.A.'s gay blacks 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Some on display bear stains from generations of smudgy fingers; some are artful illuminated miniatures. Exhibition Review: ‘In Pursuit of a Vision,’ at the Grolier Club 2012-09-11T21:57:05Z

It seemed safe enough, although the red figure on the pedestrian sign was illuminated. Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilcken’s own research and observations, however, are enough to make “Claude Lévi-Strauss,” subtitled “The Poet in His Laboratory,” an illuminating study. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

He played with clean articulation, warmth and power in both toccatas, his improvisatory flair illuminating their grandeur and dramatic scope. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z

Earlier in his career, Mr. Munro worked in the illuminated sign business, steeping himself in manufacturing and production processes. A Light Safari in Wine Country 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

Such was my illuminating experience last week on two successive nights, with established revivals of musicals that have introduced new actresses in pivotal roles. How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it’s the most relevant book of Oates’s half-century-long career, a powerful reminder that fiction can be as timely as this morning’s tweets but infinitely more illuminating. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Delbanco “excavates the past in ways that illuminate the present. Some of the questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to hold an eerie and urgent resonance in our own.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

But in the hands of two of the craft's best, the most ordinary of moments become illuminating, penetrating. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

I’ve read a fair bit of African-American history, but “White Rage,” by Carol Anderson, which is beautifully written and exhaustively researched, illuminated for me just how deliberately education policy in the United States disenfranchised African-Americans. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the current alignment of stars is unusually illuminating. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z

He offered a few critiques, but more often he paused to share stories and historical tidbits, illuminating the lineage and theory behind the movements he was teaching. At Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The kitchen is the usual gathering place, with generous overhead lamps that illuminate a long central table made from lengths of the house's original flooring. The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The approach proved illuminating, not least for providing a view of “WTC 9/11” not predicated exclusively on horror and anguish. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z

However, every praise should be reserved for our senior curator whose keen eye illuminated the fact that the stolen Corot was up for auction. Scottish police recover paintings stolen in 1990s 2011-01-20T12:48:22Z

The film illuminates the intensity of one man’s devotion and personal sacrifice, chronicles the birth of an economic justice movement, and tells an untold chapter in the story of civil rights in America. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

As the one-year anniversary of the outcry over George Floyd’s killing approaches, she said she hoped her work will not just illuminate the past, but help change the future. Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

She is interested in how her illuminated sign in this context “offers a completely different view of femininity” and will be prominently visible to passing cars. In Hollywood, Another Sign of Women Punching Back 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Inspired by the ordinary life of a young woman, its five lengthy segments traverse different styles, from musical theatre through 1980s pop video to illuminated manuscript. Sherlock Holmes, The History Boys, Race: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-18T05:00:15Z

"Reversing Roe" illuminates the history and ideologies at the center of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements, as well as what's at stake if Kavanaugh advances to the high court and Roe v. “Reversing Roe”: Filmmakers on how abortion became a political dividing line 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

It was a dynamic photographic tour of 1930s New York City: Grant’s Tomb, the Automat, the Empire State Building, illuminated marquees for a James Cagney movie, and signs for Planters Peanuts and Maybelline. Antiques-Show Dress Is The Fashion Statement of The Season 2014-03-06T00:49:33Z

But revealing, still, in what it illuminated about “The Bachelor” overall. I’m a guy who loves “The Bachelorette” — but I wish it treated professional success as more than sex appeal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

There is an important connection between Feininger’s carvings and his woodcut prints, and luckily an extensive exhibition of works on paper — including nearly 40 prints — at Moeller Fine Art New York illuminates it. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z

As it bends, light from an unseen source illuminates its landing, and you can feel your whole mind inclining toward that brightness. You'll see emptiness inhabited in Susan Bennerstrom's captivating interiors 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z

Among the details Ms. Holland illuminates is the sexism that pervades every corner of Czech society. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

All of his movies are illuminated in part by the smoldering embers of his personal experience. Noah Baumbach Knows What You’re Thinking 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Van Hove uses these things specifically to illuminate the text, I think, sometimes in rather literal-minded ways. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

In recent years, observers of historical relics and sculptures have damaged an 800-year-old coffin, a sculptural wall clock and an illuminated pumpkin. Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

Part of what pandemic fiction illuminates is how fears of invasion and the perceived threat of outsiders can diminish our humanity. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Most of our conversation took place standing on the balcony that rings Akeley Hall, Olds’s pale silhouette illuminated by the greenish light of the diorama beside us. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

On its face, the album is a collection of nine original tunes, ranging from the interior to the expansive, gracefully illuminated by a smart acoustic quartet. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

But Hedwig is quick to note that a wall bears an uncanny resemblance to a bridge, illuminating not just the demarcation but also the connections between the two sides. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

I confess I am an avid consumer and I have to wade through a sea of lazy cliches to get to anything genuinely illuminating. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z

But it’s most to be cherished for bringing us a rounded portrait of a woman whose life was deeply engaged with her work, and whose work illuminated many aspects of her life. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: I Could Read a Book 2011-10-21T18:29:04Z

Historic photography, such as the suburban living rooms of Larry Clark’s “Tulsa” series, illuminates privacy issues that continue to be debated. 3 Museum Makeovers You Should Check Out 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The midnight sky joins in too, illuminated with the greens and reds of the northern lights. Where to see spectacular autumn colours around the world: our readers’ tips 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the most illuminating aspect of the set is the playfulness, witnessing songs blooming, a sound being explored with casual joy, like-minded artists coming together in that ethereal realm that transcends theaters, studios or garages. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Unlike a traditional Torah, it features extensive illustrations: three full-page paintings, 56 large illuminated text panels, 72 small illuminated text panels and hundreds of marginal images. Getty Museum Acquires a Rare, 700-Year-Old Torah 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

His work includes fashioning steel pipes that shatter like glass, and pyrotechnic daredevilry where entire mountain landscapes are illuminated by magnesium flares sent soaring into the sky at 3,000C. Artist of the week 176: Raphael Hefti 2012-02-09T13:32:00Z

Stones, along with trees, snow, rain, and light, are frequent motifs in Bonnefoy’s writing, representing the natural elements whose presence he sought to illuminate. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s really best to adorn your mantel with artificial greenery that might be illuminated, or spray-painted branches, or glittered leaves, or something that will not drop needles after a few days. Martha Stewart offers hints on entertaining for the holidays 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

It employs that splendid sun to peer through the slats of those windows and doors to illuminate some plain, heartbreaking truth. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

We scurry through narrow passageways — banks of overhead lights illuminate our way past danger warning signs and radiation symbols — and descend steep stairs. At the Large Hadron Collider, a peek at the future of science 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But it isn't exactly expansive or illuminating, and it leaves you with few options beyond wisecracking as you die, the way one character so memorably does in both these movies. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z

His dual personalities were aptly illuminated at Caramoor on Saturday evening in a powerful performance by the baritone Stephen Powell. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The book also tells a story illuminated by its author’s abundant grace and dignity, and her authentic desire to plumb the depths of her feelings, a yearning that she said overwhelmed her reticent tendencies. Sally Field Talks About Her Life ‘In Pieces’ 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

A cerebral and illuminating pianist, especially in contemporary repertoire, he’s not a player who dazzles you with pianism per se, instead reaching through the music to find expression and communication. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Look Up” is modeled after her “Shoreline Project,” a 2018 commission by the Laguna Art Museum that brought 1,000 volunteers to Laguna Beach at twilight, equipped with specially designed, illuminated umbrellas. Elders and an Artist Bring a Social Sculpture to Life 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her pleasure seldom expresses itself in the reflex action of a polite or conversational smile, but again and again when the mood of high seriousness changes, she becomes illuminated with pleasure. An interview with Iris Murdoch: from the Guardian archive, 1 February 1960 2013-02-01T07:30:00Z

Listen Closely The New York Philharmonic is devoting most of March to the Modern Beethoven, a festival with two potentially illuminating, if not particularly novel, goals. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

This aspect of Bowie's life is neither uninteresting nor unimportant, but Range does not provide enough of a sense of Bowie at this point in his life to illuminate his fears. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

In a continuing partnership with Salon, the editors of The I Files are highlighting our picks for the best investigative videos that illustrate and illuminate what’s happening in the world. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Inside the smog capital of the world 2013-03-30T17:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the final day of Hanukkah, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its acquisition of an illuminated Hebrew Bible from 14th-century Spain. An Illuminated Hebrew Bible Has a New Home 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The result is a mixture of inaccurate replicas of Louis-era French furniture and neo-Baroque statuary set into alcoves, all gently illuminated by floor tiles lit eerily from below. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The insect community's response to the degrading ITV1 hit is extremely illuminating. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z

In the darkened hall, the whites of their eyes were illuminated like they were wearing Halloween contact lenses. The Sanctuary in Koh Pangan: a novel balance between hedonistic and healthy 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

To the west, illuminated by a late-day sun and with ever more craggy peaks as a backdrop, was Vankasar Mountain, capped by a solitary, ancient church. Explorer: Off the Map in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Region in the Southern Caucasus 2012-09-21T17:31:32Z

You fall in love with illuminating the human condition. Sterling K. Brown and Andre Braugher’s Lives Keep Intersecting 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

We say Amen to that, and Hallelujah to Ruby Dee, whose life was devoted to and illuminated by that large vision. Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

If they were, Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist would today look like a period piece, illuminating the quirks of 1950s America but quite odd and silly from our point of view. Tate Britain's Painting Now exhibition: how can painting ever belong to 'now'? 2013-07-04T14:50:12Z

There are directors who use individual stories to illuminate social conditions. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

To a significant degree, I found the user comments on the third-rate Breitbart-affiliated social media site where I streamed the movie "My Son Hunter" more interesting — and definitely more illuminating — than the film itself. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The room is illuminated like a stage against the black curtain of night. Who are those dancers spinning through the Broad (and LACMA and the Getty)? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Koh and Mr. Wosner illuminated the dramatic contrasts of the first section, which begins with an introspective Adagio and quickly morphs into a sparkling Allegro. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z

This show features dozens of loans designed to illuminate the famous painting’s composition. The New Season of Art: Looking Into the Past, and Beyond Our Shores 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Hearing Kernis talk about his “Mini Kernis Festival” on Wednesday evening, with three world premieres among those four works on the program, was particularly illuminating and timely. What’s it like watching world premiere concerts online? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

“The Organ Thieves” tells an important story passably well, but its evasions and occasional missteps hobble its power to illuminate. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Rather than vilifying one side or the other, she says, it illuminates the humanity and fallibility on both sides of the fence. Eva Longoria shows passion for acting, activism and philanthropy 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Neon-yellow wall lights and pendant lamps illuminate this sleek little bar, where live music on weekends might be a jazz pianist or a rockabilly trio entertaining the crowd. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

For those looking to understand more about Prince’s musical life in his final years, Ms. Hill’s larger story is illuminating. Popcast: Prince’s Fateful Flight and Judith Hill’s Story 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Lower, rightly, disputes this, though in a sparse and not especially illuminating way. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Arte del Mar” might have been more illuminating if it were a bit larger, and extended past the pre-Columbian tradition to include the art of colonial settlers and of Afro-Caribbean populations. The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

To understand that, it helps to see multiple variations of particular subjects, and there are some illuminating examples in the exhibition. ‘Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts’ at the Morgan Library 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Any script so rich in metaphor requires an approach that illuminates what’s between the lines. In ‘The Baltimore Waltz,’ whimsy, sadness are out of step 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Danchev also illuminates Magritte’s vast influence on later artists, including Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as on pop culture and advertising. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

The exhibit will feature projections, manuscripts and a soundtrack, all meant to illuminate some of the most resounding themes from Dickens’s life and work, including poverty, charity and the class system. Great Celebrations: 6 Ways to Ring In Dickens? Bicentennial 2012-01-19T11:58:17Z

In a popular engraving from 1862, The Bill Poster's Dream, the bill poster himself sits slumped like a drunk against a lamppost, exhausted, glue-pot by his side, examples of his handiwork illuminating the night sky. Can paper survive the digital age? 2012-11-09T09:20:27Z

Irene is a sympathetic, attractive, purposely opaque character with a quick mind and tongue, a richness of character that Hall’s filmmaking and Thompson’s performance convey in exacting, illuminating detail. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In this National Book Award winner, New Yorker writer Osnos illuminates what he calls China’s Gilded Age and its appetites, challenges and dilemmas. 50 notable works of nonfiction

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. | 'Page One: Inside The New York Times': A Hyperactive Fly on the Newsroom Wall 2011-06-16T21:05:42Z

It is one of the most endearing attributes of this storyteller of outsize gifts and estimable skills at synthesizing the arcane and the everyday into illuminating, spoken treatises, usually on vital American subjects. Review | The provocative Mike Daisey is a straight-shooter in his solo show about guns. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

In a period of relentless news, it’s a relief to come across thought-provoking analysis that transcends the 24/7 cycle to illuminate the present. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

That pencil with the bite marks is from a piece called “Cheri,” which illuminates the perspective of a terminally ill woman. Mingling Fact and Fiction, Jo Ann Beard Bares Her Subjects’ Souls 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

This Deco-cool sliver of a space overlooks an illuminated pool and draws a mellow crew. 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2011-01-06T20:57:02Z

Lights to brighten the winter darkness illuminate holiday traditions around the Seattle area this weekend, and throughout the holiday season. The season of lights 2013-12-05T02:33:36Z

In the dark recesses of set pieces yet to be rolled on and illuminated, Benanti waits, a mask of professional composure, for her next entrance. What’s it like behind the scenes at ‘My Fair Lady’? We went backstage with Laura Benanti. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

We're so used to music supporting images that the opposite process, of images illuminating music, struggles to get off the ground. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z

He is now a registered financial adviser, and his blog, as the name implies, is devoted to illuminating the public about the booby traps of investing. Cultural Studies: Parting Is Such Sweet Revenge 2012-08-10T21:10:47Z

Yoda there, describing the Force in layperson’s terms, without actually illuminating a great deal about what it actually is. 'How do wookiees breed?': the big Star Wars questions answered 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

At its not-so-best, it creates redundancies that annoy rather than illuminate. ‘All Grown Up,’ by Jami Attenberg, is an X-ray of Gen X life 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

What follow are excerpts from "Wasted" that illuminate the student culture at Georgetown Prep during that era — and fill in some of the gaps in the timeline of the critical summer of 1982. Key revelations from Mark Judge’s addiction memoir, “Wasted” 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a stunning illuminated globe in the main hall, onto which is projected a narrative of human migration since the species first appeared. Your Tired, Your Poor and Your Xenophobes at a Rebuilt and Re-Envisioned Ellis Island 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

The performance has a smooth virtuosity that plays down the gimmickry and illuminates how Macbeth’s mind is a tangled nest of both noble and evil impulses. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z

These encounters vary the show’s pace, but they aren’t particularly illuminating. Review: In ‘The Prisoner,’ Peter Brook Ponders Crime and Punishment 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Griffin illuminated her approach to the show, signaling that there may have already been a dichotomy between her style and the show's creative direction. Kathy Griffin's 'Fashion Police' exit gets outpouring of support 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Tiffany Shlain's father, Leonard Shlain, was a brain surgeon and author of best-selling books including "Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light," which illuminated connections between seemingly disparate disciplines. 'Connected' by Web: Film is a bit disjointed 2011-10-06T21:00:05Z

Photograph: Alamy In contrast to the towering, illuminated skyscrapers and hi-tech infrastructure of Japan’s major cities, the Iya Valley is perhaps one of the most isolated regions of the country. Searching for the remote: Cabo Raso, Patagonia’s coastal ghost town 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

But Lumen will certainly illuminate something for Dexter. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Bonded by Rage 2010-10-25T15:23:00Z

But the real beauty of the documentary form is its ability to illuminate a wide variety of subjects in a wide variety of styles, whether hard-hitting investigative work or quiet portraits of individual lives. Led by a Vietnam War Opus, a Rich Season of Documentaries 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

You see the logic when you drive by at night and all the different floors are illuminated the same way. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

One sequence in the show featured children in illuminated pods that looked like cages. With Latin beat, J. Lo and Shakira project power of women at Super Bowl showcase 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

What’s more illuminating, then, is attempting to reconcile Brown’s own way of discussing what happened to him with the knowledge that he was a victim of child abuse. Chris Brown Was Raped. Does It Matter If He Doesn’t Think So? 2013-10-09T21:57:04Z

Much of what Lahr has to say is illuminating, though the cogency of his interpretations is marred by overconfidence. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the fact is that it’s there, and sometimes we catch a glimpse of it, just by chance—like when a flash of lightning illuminates our surroundings for an instant. Haruki Murakami on Parallel Realities 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

An illuminating new work of history called “The Social Life of Books,” by Abigail Williams, describes the public’s obsession with reading aloud — and together — in 18th-century England. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

With the slightest of touches and quickest of sketches, an imaginative filmmaker can turn subsidiary characters into lively and vital presences whose rapid glints of illuminating remarks or actions lend a story scope and fullness. The Silent Women of “Entourage” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

There’s a lot of complicated, illuminating chemistry in this relationship too. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z

In PJ’s case, especially, it’s the ambiguity of what happened to him on one fine day on the island of Inishmore that feels so resonant and, paradoxically, so illuminating. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

For a show called “Dress Code,” the facade of the Saint-Paul train station was dressed in illuminated images of clothing in homage to Lyon’s onetime role as the center of Europe’s silk industry. | In Lyon, Artists and Designers Light Up the City 2013-12-24T19:00:55Z

The towers, absent from the illuminated skyline, are reflected in the black water. Magazine Covers About 9/11 2011-09-09T23:30:24Z

We lugged our mattress into the tent, running an extension cord from the house to illuminate our hideout. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z

Free improvisation, strenuous and illuminated, plays a crucial role in that aesthetic, and so it did here. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z

“Signs & Symbols” at the Whitney Museum of American Art illuminates that trend. Art Review: ‘Signs & Symbols’ and Oskar Fischinger at Whitney Museum 2012-07-26T20:02:10Z

The corridor is at once imposingly cavernous and celestially illuminated. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

‘OSLO’ The delicate art of backdoor diplomacy was brought to illuminating life in J. T. Rogers’s vibrant re-creation of the events that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Best Theater of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Ms. Downs commissioned new retablos for each song on the album, and as part of the physical package, they often illuminate the songs; thoughts about morality and survival underlie the album’s many musical exploits. Playlist : New Releases: Atlas Sound, Lila Downs and Michael Jackson 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z

The other reason the lights are dim is Humberto Díaz’s “In the Spotlight,” an empty spot of floor illuminated by 21 flashlights suspended from the ceiling by wires. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The two Wright sisters told illuminating stories of the prejudice they suffered as Anglo-Indians before coming to Yorkshire from India. Manningham gets English Heritage guide 2010-06-25T10:23:00Z

This dark but illuminating return to his fictional roots is Perry at his representative best. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

Worse, the choreography, by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, doesn’t illuminate its biographical subject. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Enclosed in brick walls on one side and huge windows on the other beneath a tin-print ceiling, the space is illuminated by oversized chandeliers, bands of twinkle lights and a red-lit back bar. The only sugar-rimmed margarita worth drinking 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

“The Day the Sun Died” may not illuminate our goal, but it’s a wake-up call about the path we’re on. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Hitchens would be the first to agree he cuts a less dashing figure than the beautiful young firebrand who illuminated the pages of the New Statesman in the 70s. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z

But this distinctive musician is never routine, and his exquisitely honed phrasing and gestures often illuminate unusual structural details. Music Review: Paavo Jarvi Brings Schumann to Alice Tully Hall 2010-08-03T22:52:00Z

Van Minnen paints like an old master, layering and glazing so that his oils on panel seem to be illuminated from within. Christian Rex van Minnen's modern tales of male domination, painted like an old master 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

Displayed individually and in groups in the darkened gallery, they’re illuminated by blinking, revolving, strobing and glowing lights of many different colors. Museum & Gallery Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The lighting dims to cast glistening flecks on the back wall; an emission of dry ice, illuminated, looks like a swirling mist. Review: In ‘Folds,’ Caught Between Laughter and Grief 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

But they can illuminate its impact and capture the complex damage it does to the psyche. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

This digressive, rhapsodic, trancelike approach illuminates the diverse body of music on “10 Years Solo Live,” a new boxed set culled from a decade of European concert recordings, released initially on eight LPs. Jazz Listings for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Anyway, you have to admit that directors here come up with some surprising and, on occasion, illuminating variations on what to do with comestibles. | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z

And they skillfully illuminate the tug of war — between youth and age, optimism and cynicism — that swirls within Mr. Sondheim’s score. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z

Dramas about such events need a clear purpose, which is to illuminate those events. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z

These eclectic movements didn’t illuminate the lives that Mr. Wilson drew to our attention in the program. Review: ‘Citizen,’ Reggie Wilson’s Bridge From African-American History to the Postmodern 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, longtime D.C. residents were ushered past oversize, illuminated photos of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, past new black-walnut walls and dueling jumbo screens. Money problems and no-name acts: The Howard Theatre is struggling. Again. 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Some partygoers reclined on metallic gold couches, their shadows cast by illuminated votives. Richard Plepler of HBO Stands Tall in New York’s Cultural Elite 2012-09-21T15:57:49Z

Mr. Levingston, in particular, values illuminating connections among the pieces he programs. Music Review: A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations 2011-05-13T22:35:41Z

In drawing on Internet secrets, Mr. Lang illuminates the contradictions in modern life, the contrasts drawn between what we reveal in heated comment threads and what we conceal in the real world. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

It is illuminating to see the mind of an organization at work—to eavesdrop on the conference calls and deskside scrums that determine angles of coverage. How “The Fourth Estate” Attempts to Capture the Still-In-Progress Story of America’s Debasement Under Trump 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Under Anne Bogart’s direction, these aspects never cohere, nor does the incoherence seem especially purposeful or illuminating. Review: In ‘The Exalted,’ Puzzling Stories Inspired by a Rich Life Cut Short 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Her approach is to quickly and clearly define a broad type of cheese, such as Alpine or Pasta Filata, and then illuminate three specific cheeses within that class. ‘It’s Not You, It’s Brie:’ Blessed are the cheesemakers 2013-01-02T22:44:37Z

The photo appears to have been taken at night, the scene illuminated by lights from a vehicle. Fraternity students face investigation after posing with guns in front of Emmett Till memorial 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

It illuminates several of the scene’s leading individuals, providing critical insight into their everyday lives, which are intertwined with Aids, poverty, racism and homophobia. Dance music on the big screen: five of the best and five of the worst films in history 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

These paintings are illuminated by three other groups of works. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

It's a swap that will help illuminate some of the greatest art on earth. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z

This material illuminates Degas’ lifestyle and creative vision and contextualizes “Little Dancer” within the artistic and intellectual movements of its time. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

“New Dark Age” is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Irreverent, loving and irresistible, he was unquestionably the brightest person to illuminate the young life of my family and myself. Brian Duffy obituary 2010-06-06T16:58:00Z

It’s a collection of essays, published by Princeton, which I found to be very illuminating. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z

The relationship of meaning and form to process and material is illuminated with revelatory specificity, often with surprisingly recent acquisitions. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z

The electricity is used to illuminate exhibits on energy, the idea being to convert physical energy to knowledge. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z

Mr. Cheney reminds us of just how recent the phenomenon of an illuminated night is. | 'The City Dark': ?The City Dark,? a Documentary by Ian Cheney - Review 2012-01-17T23:15:50Z

A critic once wrote of Charles Munch: “Whether the music is illuminated or driven, it is never just respectable or indifferent. It is alive.” For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In the beginning of this tale of sex, drugs, money and power, it illuminates an idyllic decadence. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z

But they each possess the kind of inner glow that illuminates the screen. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty in the new play “Kin,” by Bathsheba Doran. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z

She first started visiting Japan in the 1960s, and she is able to illuminate a sometimes opaque culture. | Books for the Coffee Lover 2012-12-14T16:59:58Z

They also performed as the opening act, the Babblers, wearing patterned one-piece hooded pajamas and sunglasses, illuminated onstage mostly by table lamps and some Christmas-tree lights. How Much Instability Is Too Much? 2010-12-10T01:26:00Z

This health journalist’s history of dentistry illuminates the class line between those who spend thousands of dollars to perfect their smiles and others who suffer from, and even die of, preventable tooth decay. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

When I returned the next day, this time by taxi, the church and village were illuminated, and decorated shrines were being pulled through the streets. A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to his old haunts decades later 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The counterpoint of her two stories is meant to illuminate a larger set of questions about the beliefs and behavior of America and its enemies in the post-9/11 world. | 'The Oath': Laura Poitras?s Documentary on Two Al Qaeda Cases 2010-05-07T00:09:00Z

In one of the more illuminating letters quoted in “The Untold Story,” Eliot explains his reasons for rejecting the “sound, earnest and educated verse” of a manuscript that the house was considering. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Lights were installed at the base of the sculpture, which would have illuminated the beautiful alabaster elongated face. Vandal attack lights at landmark sculpture 2011-07-19T11:14:51Z

The South African novelist and playwright absorbingly illuminates his wide, worldly life. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Despite a sweet scene between Ms. Copeland and Raven Wilkinson, a black ballerina who performed in the 1950s, the film isn’t particularly illuminating about race and ballet. Review: ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ Chronicles the Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Bakewell illuminates the long tradition of humanism — which explores the moral dimensions of what it really means to be human — using the work of great philosophers, artists and writers. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Niagara Falls will be illuminated in purple today for the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth. Niagara Falls Turned Purple on the Day Prince Died 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The work, full of lunar references, was here illuminated by stories-high billboards shining brighter than any full moon. Review: Robin Rhode Takes Schoenberg’s ‘Erwartung’ to the Street (Broadway, No Less) 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

The ancillary works in this show illuminate Coecke’s talent, especially his transmedia sense of design, but his paintings seem of passing interest:  tightly composed yet confusing, with overheated colors, at least in this context. ‘Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke Tapestries at the Met 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Reviewing that production, The Los Angeles Times called it a “funny and thought-provoking new play” that illuminates “the clashing personalities that drive three discordant takes on Christianity.” He Puts Bill Maher on TV, and Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy on Stage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Unlike the recent powerful documentary “Finding Oscar,” which illuminated a major Guatemalan tragedy by focusing on an individual story, “500 Years” dives right into bigger pictures. Review: ‘500 Years’ Looks at a Guatemala Searching for Justice 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

But if the way I handle different periods of American history and black history does illuminate the way we live now in a way that’s useful, I’m glad. 6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of The Underground Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Throughout, its focus on science fiction amplifies and exemplifies the way art illuminates reality by imagining the unreal. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

It’s illuminating for wine lovers to see them from another perspective, and more than a few readers will want to try some of the ciders enjoyed by Mr. Wilson along the way. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Coates’s illuminating “Incarnations” translates this balanced partnership into performance, riffing on the structure of a classroom lecture. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Each episode of this monthly show features bite-size audio dramas that illuminate corners of history that children are unlikely to learn in school, often emphasizing the overlooked accomplishments of women and people of color. 7 Podcasts for Stir-Crazy Kids 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

In 1985, he made a poignant portrait of a man standing in a sheer shroud, illuminated against a black background. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

A lively study of a murder trial that illuminates attitudes toward successful women. 10 Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

As night falls, the figures perform abstracted dance rituals in the woods before converging on an illuminated neoclassical gazebo. L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the facade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Lasers zip across a stage littered with detritus, reflecting off spoons and illuminating a fish tank in which a Big Ears puppet is ritually drowned. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z

Charlotte Dobbs, a soprano, illuminated those shifts with precision and sensitivity. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z

Suddenly the lights went dark and Kelly was illuminated 40 feet above, standing in the basket of a crane that hovered over the Which Stage's distinctive question mark symbol. Jack Johnson pulls off the switch at Bonnaroo 2013-06-16T05:40:10Z

Her brightly illuminated body, whose nether parts are barely covered by a bit of diaphanous gold fabric, is similarly realized with a loving eye for the subtlest curve, bulge and dimple. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z

But it’s in the liquefaction of her dancing that Ms. Murphy is most illuminated. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z

The title of “Secret Sunshine” thus becomes both its moral and a description of its curiously illuminating qualities. | 'Secret Sunshine': Fierce Tests of Endurance and the Resilience of the Spirit 2010-12-21T23:18:57Z

You only need to read today’s headlines to comprehend the continuing human cost of the political and military transactions depicted in this engrossing, illuminating play from the author of “The Overwhelming.” | 'Blood and Gifts': ?Blood and Gifts? at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - Review 2011-11-22T03:02:13Z

But it’s not without sparkle: Sequins will light up the waterfront waves and LED lights will illuminate the buildings. A mini-golf course at Olympic Sculpture Park? These artists are designing one 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

For the first hour, Chin often seems to be finding her operatic footing, relying on her gift for illuminating complexity with shimmering, nearly tactile instrumental color to also supply theater. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The unspoken lesson might be to sprinkle in illuminating analogies from antiquity as often as possible, for Zeus’ sake. A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

In August, it issued a public appeal for aid to acquire a €2.4 million illuminated manuscript that represents the first emperors of Rome. More Paris Institutions Turn to Crowd-Funding 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

And women accessorized their outfits with pillbox hats and pearls, illuminated by the glow of a storefront window rather than a smartphone. Turning Back Time on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The curtains are closed, allowing only slivers of California sunlight to illuminate the dust. The Dark Manhood of “Kicks,” an Anti-Coming-of-Age Story 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

What look like rows of Christmas bulbs illuminate the ceiling. Hank’s Pasta Bar uses its noodles to grin-inducing effect 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Wilson, who worked closely with her puppeteer, Brian Fisher, said the daemons help illuminate flesh-and-blood characters like her Mrs. Coulter, a seductive villainess of complex moral stature and motive. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

But each of them goes through the book illuminating readers about how this harsh new China works. Books of The Times: A Comrade by Accident, a Seeker by Design 2011-06-09T21:52:53Z

The second: when, on top of some mobile scaffolding, he descended through a hole in the deck, illuminated only by the flashlight he wore. Review: What Happens in the Theater Before and After the Dance? 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

In the odd, difficult role created for Suzanne Farrell, Sterling Hyltin was serene and playful, giving us something graceful to watch without illuminating the work’s enigmas. Review: ‘All Balanchine II’ by New York City Ballet 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Niagara Falls will be illuminated in purple today for the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth. Niagara Falls Turned Purple on the Day Prince Died 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Adshead, a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, revisits 11 cases from the past 30 years to illuminate the origins of violence in the human mind. Newly Published, From a California Wildfire to Kendrick Lamar 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

And we find, each time, that they illuminate our experience more than our experience illuminates them. Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z

"While we are far from a finished product that, regardless, would never air during this current news cycle, I do think Preston's take is illuminating, particularly with some distance," Obst said. TV adaptation of Ebola best-seller 'The Hot Zone' in the works 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Then Bill Cosby changed all that by illuminating the family comedy with his point of view.” In a Gloomy Economy, TV Sitcoms Are Making a Comeback 2011-10-23T23:40:12Z

The play they see, by following performers along specially illuminated pathways, bridges and pavilions, is inspired both by classical Chinese drama and early 20th-century California history. Sharing a Secret 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

In three memoirs — “Yossarian Slept Here,” “Reading My Father” and “The House in France,” respectively — they shift the spotlight from their famous parents to themselves, illuminating their supporting roles. Literary Lions, by Their Cubs 2011-08-10T21:14:41Z

Our current Sherlockian gold rush illuminates something more: how we seize on characters and ideas and transform them from private creations into mass­made mythologies that can suit any cultural moment. The televisual Sherlock: The role that made Benedict Cumberbatch a star drove another actor insane 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Casting a harsh high beam on a growing societal problem, swaddled in mental-health resources and caveats, it doesn’t so much illuminate as irradiate. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Capitol building, the monuments — Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln — are all instantly recognizable and they are illuminated each evening. In Transit Blog: On the National Mall, Art in the Round 2012-03-18T13:00:55Z

There have been plenty of successful dark and bittersweet musicals before, but not since Sondheim have tragedy and comedy been so illuminatingly entwined. This 'Fun Home' weaves tragedy and comedy into a wholly original American musical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The Loudest Voice,” the Showtime series based on Gabriel Sherman’s reportage on Fox News, illuminates the darker implications of such arrangements. The Sexual Predator’s TV Wife 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

The flames of Sept. 11, 2001, not only recast America’s future, they also illuminated a ­long-neglected history of conflict between the West and certain strains of Islam. ‘The Kindness of Enemies’ explores the deep roots of the war on terror 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

A grown-up novel may make all its points with action and emotion, but some underlying force of fable or allegory, of educational purpose, seems necessary to illuminate a permanent book for younger readers. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Street lamps cast a soft glow onto the trees of Washington Square Park in Manhattan, and speaking for three invigorating hours on a spring Friday after dark, she illuminated histories within it. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Bright spotlights illuminate 22 vividly colored works and glint off the Honfleur Gallery’s sleek wooden floors. The Honfleur Gallery hasn’t “saved” Anacostia, but it has made a home for art there

In those books too he illuminates conspiracies with deep roots, stretching across history: a series of shadow narratives that explain, or undermine our explanation, of the world. In 'Numero Zero,' Umberto Eco has his mind on conspiracy — again 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

That conversation — illuminating systemic racism — is the most important “thing” that makes white people uncomfortable, as his title has it. I’m a Pro Football Player Now, but I’ll Be Black Forever 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

In all these ways science fiction ought to illuminate the questions we discuss here. What can science fiction teach us about God? 2011-07-11T11:30:00Z

Three other new books are seemingly obscure, but actually quite illuminating. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

Though as documented in James Spooner’s illuminating 2003 documentary “Afro-Punk,” which spawned a festival of the same name, fans and musicians who were minority group members often found themselves on the fringes of the scene. Hardcore Punk Is Looking (and Sounding) Different Now 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

The writer draws on hundreds of interviews with citizens, political figures and personalities to illuminate the ongoing struggle. 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

But hearing this repertory sung by a consummate opera performer helped illuminate a musical moment suspended between nostalgia and modernity. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

An especially striking aspect of Mr. Zimmermann and Mr. Pace’s traversal was the way they illuminated the expansion of Bach’s ideas as the set progressed. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

“That awkward moment when Halloween is over but you’re still a slag,” an illuminated message board featured in Alexander’s Bar in Worcestershire recently read, according to a photo taken inside the establishment. Bar accused of misogyny over 'awkward moment' sign: 'This is just wrong' 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

In this way she intertwines individual, social and legal history in a manner that is mostly illuminating. The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

From there, of course, the cockney would illuminate many of British cinema's finest moments – chief among them the films of Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone. Cream of the cockney crop 2011-07-15T11:26:26Z

The world has lost a writer of immense talent and heart, a writer who helped illuminate the wonders, losses and consolations of the human condition. Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

With the bumpy juxtaposition of ancient and modern, which doesn't always illuminate, though Buffini does daringly use it for some joshing bathos. Sucker Punch; Welcome to Thebes; Alice 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

Over the years, as Mr. Cutler illuminated, the two women have developed a kind of exasperated but productive yin-yang dynamic, down to their style of dress. Grace Coddington Is Always in Fashion 2012-11-17T11:00:00Z

The ending is puzzling, when it wants to be devastating, and the political and personal sides of the story, rather than illuminating each other, fight to a stalemate. Review: ‘In the Fade’ Is a Tale of Grief and Violence in Modern Germany 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

If awards don’t tell us anything definitive about the books themselves, they certainly indicate something illuminating about the era. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

By illuminating sources that clearly point the way forward, Ms. Simmons demonstrates that it’s not a matter of innovating new solutions, but about the will and power to redistribute resources. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Rome could not have looked more romantic: the roads were quiet, the Colosseum and the Forum were illuminated on our bus ride from airport to hotel in the early hours. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Afterward, the couple toured the downtown on foot and walked along the St. Joseph River to view interactive illuminated sculptures there known as River Lights. ‘Mayor Pete’ Gets Married, Then Takes His Husband to a Pride Party 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Both he and Mr. Gomes provided the most musically illuminating dancing of the two performances; both of them gave their ballerinas beautiful support. Dance Review: Two Top Giselles, Back to Back 2011-05-29T22:49:01Z

But over all, Mr. Beaty shines an illuminating light on the life of an important American artist who was an equally significant activist, well before the advent of the civil rights movement. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The concert, “This Music Should Not Exist,” uses Ligeti’s early life experiences to illuminate his later music, using a mixture of storytelling, recorded audio and performance that is being billed as a “live podcast.” How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

But it is the total transformation of Mr. Simons from a street-smart menswear designer into a leader in women’s wear that illuminated the collections. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z

“It does not really darken Rome so much as illuminate the many parts that matter,” he wrote. Q&A: A Reasonable Lodging in Rome and Florence 2010-03-25T16:00:00Z

They also discovered that when they illuminated just one side of the helmet, a mouse would start spinning in that direction. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z

The costumes, music and projections similarly seem to function more as pastiche than the means toward illuminating or furthering the story. Review: In ‘Misdemeanor Dream,’ Speaking to the Unseen 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Reading it now, nearly 25 years on, also illuminates how much the sport has changed and how depressingly little the racial tensions that gird it have.” New & Noteworthy 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., the museum features 15,000 paintings, sculptures, and other works in a naturally illuminated setting. Live It Up in Houston 2011-04-25T05:20:02.430Z

The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades makes ample use of previously unavailable materials to illuminate Douglass’s later years, after the Civil War. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The handmade artistry of these books helps to illuminate and animate children’s feelings of wonder, loss and determination. In These Stunning Picture Books, Children Navigate a Big, Wide World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The promise that an exhibition such as this one will illuminate something interesting about the collector, or the idea of collecting, is almost never fulfilled. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The football game, for instance, that Brian Glover referees in Kes is at once hilariously funny and a brilliant study of bullying, bad education and humiliation that illuminates the film's larger context. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z

Curious, fantastical and weighty, this illuminating memoir penetrates the force field of mystery shrouding one of America’s most iconic musical figures. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

With great differences, illuminating moments of dovetailing and 25 instances of out-and-out overlap, the Modern and Marlborough shows are accidental complements that at times seem to finish each other’s sentences. Art Review: Picasso Prints at MoMA and Marlborough 2010-04-08T22:17:00Z

So here's a roundup of recent familial soundbites from Pitt -- and by soundbites, we really mean morsels in which he acknowledges various personal topics, if not exactly illuminating them. Brad Pitt roundup: His wedding, his honeymoon, his kids 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The Underground Railroad perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

It’s charming and illuminating, if not quite equal to the brilliance of the first section. What Decades of Reading Scandinavian Crime Fiction Can Teach You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

That was my first thought, sitting in a booth as cozy as a chicken coop simultaneously illuminated by a wax-encrusted silver candelabrum and a wire-caged filament bulb. Farm-to-fork fare 2011-08-25T18:07:05Z

Light seeps from pretty perforated ceiling lamps, illuminating ivory walls judiciously adorned with paintings, textiles and wood carvings. A taste of Lebanon at Cafe Munir 2012-04-05T19:24:04Z

But what if these words are misremembered and all the candles illuminate something that exists not in the mind of the creator but in that of the reader? The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z

The other five were all friendly and illuminating. Taking the Empire Builder train across America 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Isozaki finally built the museum as a village of platonic solids clad in a richly textured red Indian sandstone, with large pyramidal skylights illuminating the serene galleries below. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

The photographs had to show stars in conjunction with the cliffs, so I would need to wait until moonrise illuminated the rocks. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Still, “A Private Life” offers a rich and illuminating reassessment, invigorating the somewhat lackluster discourse about the iconic movie star. Review: ‘Elizabeth Taylor’: the first modern celebrity 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But as illuminating as these interpretations were, they still gave the impression of occurring in the quaint alternate universe of a musical descended from operetta. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Like the Watergate season, the Clinton series reveals how its scandal connects to the partisan wrangling and bad faith of today, and makes for enjoyable, illuminating listening. The Best Podcasts of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

If those don’t stupefy you, the view of the illuminated harbor almost certainly will. 36 Hours in Marseille 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Headlamps illuminated the bowlines and square knots they tied. Muslim Scouts pursue an American tradition — in an America wary of Muslims 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

She deftly illuminated its eclectic moods and myriad timbres — which ranged from breathy, guttural noises to rhapsodic melodies in a high register, interspersed and contrasted with digital sounds. Music Review: Works That Make Technology an Ally 2011-06-01T22:38:12Z

And, perhaps, the desire to illuminate a thorny legal and moral concern of the digital age, for an audience with disparate levels of technological knowledge, may have stymied the play’s more nuanced ambitions. Review | A new play asks: Should the Internet let you erase your past bad acts? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

A towering backdrop was often illuminated by lasers; his band members were supplemented by a 60-piece orchestra. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z

Bourne’s version is quite lovely when he’s illuminating what he knows best: the raucous communal life of the whole troupe of Lermontov’s dancers. Review | Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’: Lovely when focused on what he knows best 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

And the gallery that illuminates the Japan/ Pacific Northwest connection also underlines the link between pop sensibility and tradition with two clever juxtapositions. Eye-popping ceramic art at BAM, the Henry and beyond 2012-02-29T23:57:05Z

“Oh, my God, Saddam?!” someone moans as recent Iraqi history gets rehashed with illuminating detail but also sometimes with more heat than light. Review | ‘Noura’ is the best premiere of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Digressions involving suicide, child abuse, immigration and unions muddy the film’s meaning rather than illuminate it. Review: ‘Intrepido’ Follows an Italian From Job to Job 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

It was nearly 15 minutes into Thursday’s sold-out show by the Fleet Foxes before lead singer Robin Pecknold was fully illuminated. Seattle’s prodigal band returns; Fleet Foxes puts on stellar show 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Neither represents a landmark of 21st century Shakespearean stagecraft, but taken together they illuminate what makes this fearsome tragedy so difficult to tame on stage. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

I met with CIA officers who were generous with offering their time and information and I took a tour of Langley Institute and found this incredibly illuminating. Claire Danes switches gears for "Homeland" TV drama 2011-09-30T12:33:45Z

Mr. Murphy illuminated the inside of a sailcloth tent with hundreds of Edison bulbs strung on white cords chosen to blend in with the fabric. Field Notes: Not Only the Bride Is Beaming 2011-03-25T00:02:16Z

Think of the Barbara Ehrenreich method, all of this work and explaining and illuminating and understanding, and all of these quests, and it’s all very valuable. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z

The central exhibit incorporates traditional Dutch references — Deflt tile under the bridge arch, an inverted field of abstract tulips mirroring the real fields of tulips, and windmill sails reconfigured as illuminated sets. A flower show offers some calm amid the storm 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

In the bathroom, guests were greeted with a shrine-like installation featuring a large photograph of the artist’s mother, taken in the early 1980s, illuminated by candles. How to Throw a Dinner Party Like a Performance Artist 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Brockmeier delivers a riveting novel that asks: What if all aches and agony were illuminated? 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z

It's not the only valid way to make a movie, but it's demanding and illuminating, and there are not as many rewards in it as there are in the shoot-the-camera-out-of-a-cannon type of directorial pyrotechnics. Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z

Her singing illuminated everything she knew and felt. Barbara Cook at the Wallis: Still doing what she does best 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Auerbach recalled that Bacon was full of opinions, “some inane and banal, many of them absolutely inspired and illuminating.” At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Decades before the ascent of contemporary immigrant fiction, Jhabvala was using her migrations to illuminate the universal human longing for connection and place. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The online world has recently engaged in a frank and intermittently illuminating conversation with itself over the meaning — if there is one — of the word “clickbait.” RIP “clickbait”: The REAL reason to stop talking about this word 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Music, here, serves as an illuminating metaphor for happiness. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

It also points to the center’s larger aim of using Dylan’s vast archive, with documents and artifacts from nearly his entire career, to illuminate the creative process itself. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The setting of most courtroom dramas is a merciful, rational place, where lies are exposed and gray areas are illuminated by the impersonal workings of a mostly benevolent system. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

His mother would be coiled up on the floor, motionless with exhaustion, her birdlike profile illuminated by the dim light of the kerosene lamp perched beside her. 2010-02-05T19:37:00Z

Their pasts, trials and fervent ambitions are illuminated through an appealing score pungent with blues-rock authenticity. Theater Review: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ at La Jolla Playhouse 2012-06-05T22:12:18Z

The dark set, illuminated with strobe lights that rose up electronically on pillars beside the runway, welcomed this gang of hot-blooded heroes, hair swept back, thin hips pulsating, shoes with exaggerated points. Fashion Review: Saint Laurent: Sexual Swagger 2013-07-01T15:07:02Z

It's illuminated just how serious this problem is, even more so, I think, than the hashtag. Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The look of the film, mixing computer and hand-drawn techniques, is both simplistic and lush, calling to mind old storybooks and the famed illuminated manuscript this Irish folktale came from. Simply the best of the rest 2010: films the critics forgot to mention 2011-01-10T16:45:33Z

She felt that an open Bible was an illuminating guide, a protectant, this night light for the soul. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Donning canine masks, they howl at a canopy of twinkling lights and illuminated symbols: a spoon, a bottle, a cross. Jaro Vinarsky’s ‘Animalinside’ Explores Masculinity 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

The incident illuminates some strange similarities between the bands of internet trolls stalking the web and the legions of online fans seeking to stir up some drama. The Rise of the Internet Fan Bully 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

I hoped that, on some level, engaging the painful history of human atrocity and heroism in Charleston might illuminate the racial chasms dividing Americans. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

During a visit to London earlier this year, Ben Brantley wrote: “Watching ‘Rainbow’ isn’t always a pleasant experience, but it is a surprisingly illuminating one.” ArtsBeat Blog: Judy Garland Drama Coming to Broadway 2011-08-18T13:42:15Z

That question, posed in this illuminating new book by David Casarett, a hospice physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, sounds simple and turns out to be anything but. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

If you're looking for a revisionist “Brigadoon,” or a production that finds some arresting visual metaphor to illuminate its themes for a new generation, this is not your show. 'Brigadoon' a bonnie trip through the heather 2011-06-07T18:52:02Z

Can nostalgia help illuminate a radical path forward? Prophets of Rage and the trouble with fighting today’s wars using yesterday’s weapons 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

For Winnetka resident Rose Latter, an old photograph of her mother holding her infant grandson beneath an illuminated Christmas tree at the family home in England evokes far more than a warm holiday memory. Lady Gaga aims for 'Artpop' but falls short 2013-11-08T20:37:00Z

Glenn Ligon, for his part, praised the Pop master’s use of color, saying it helped him illuminate the hard realities of race in paintings based on Richard Pryor’s scabrous stand-up comedy. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Both are illuminating, if occasionally plodding, in their own ways. Critic’s Notebook: Dance on Camera Festival Has a Wide Focus 2014-01-31T00:04:43Z

It might sound weird, but the more I researched it — it was more illuminating than I expected. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

Even the visuals and special effects were more elaborate, with one particularly nifty bit involving the star using an illuminated mirror to shine probing spotlights into the audience. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z

As Louis Hyman shows in his illuminating and often surprising new book, the midcentury idyll of steady employment and a regular paycheck wasn’t designed to include women and people of color. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

He opens each chapter with a quotation, generally about the artistic impulse, and a “soundtrack” song that is supposed to illuminate the text. Review: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ — the struggle to make a life that matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

That line appears more than once in “Jaco,” an illuminating, compassionate new documentary, and its hubris comes across as both playful and deeply serious. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

He has the illuminating experience of finding a French D.J. who says he has dreamed of visiting the Bronx his whole life, because his role model is the Bronx D.J. Books of The Times: ‘Rebel Music,’ by Hisham D. Aidi 2014-04-23T21:51:25Z

The book also perfectly illuminates DeLillo’s obsessive theme: how people in closed rooms, convinced of others plotting against them, design their own counterplots, thereby turning the world into the very conspiratorial place they imagine. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It illuminates a lost and not very pleasant person – selfish, self-absorbed, lacking in empathy, capable of cruelty and the kind of judgment that led to the bullying she herself suffered. Harley Loco by Rayya Elias – review 2013-06-14T09:00:11Z

One thing that’s so beautifully illuminated in the show is tenderness between, or of, men, which we see so rarely in media. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

But this illuminating exhibition in the Bronx reveals the artist’s brighter side. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

As he delivered the first few lines of “I’m a Mess,” rigs surrounding the large stage illuminated his ginger hair, creating an intimate glow around the folk-pop crooner. Rock in Rio is not for the Coachella crowd, but it works for Vegas 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

To some extent, that is what happens in many of these illuminated texts. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z

Each illuminated text connects its contemporary experience to the religious past, appending new commentary to old. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z

It transforms sound, dampening it and illuminating the world with a phosphorescent glow. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z

Bernstein’s first three musicals got revelatory symphonic treatments thanks to illuminating conducting in semi-staged performances. The best classical music performances of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was made to be part of life, to illuminate a theatre of worship, war, or love. The middle ages invented fine art ... and Britain itself 2012-08-08T15:40:27Z

Raised in privilege, Bush is known to be allergic to introspection, and try as he might, Meacham unearths no “Rosebud” moment that illuminates what propelled Bush throughout his career. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Conductor Ludovic Morlot gave a clear and committed reading that illuminated the structure of the new work, which was jointly commissioned by the orchestras of Kitchener-Waterloo and Winnipeg as well as Seattle. SSO's premiere of Muhly work: so far, so good 2012-01-27T17:53:05Z

Some are illuminating, like Charles Dickens’s marked-up copy of “David Copperfield,” in which he excised paragraphs and inscribed prompts that he used in public readings from the book. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z

But if the performance doesn’t illuminate heart and soul and mind, maybe it’s because in this dystopia, such things are almost extinct. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

But, for those who think games have the capacity to take us to novel, joyous, or illuminating places, here are eleven that, this year, seemed to light a way forward. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

But in “Widows” there’s an element of cynicism in the playing of that role, a sense of McQueen adorning the storytelling with doctrine rather than enriching or illuminating it. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, the identity impulse is illuminating, as in the Nordic Heritage Museumin Seattle, which gives a Scandinavian angle to the settling of the Pacific Northwest. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

And I think it illuminates something about the original. James Ijames on Winning a Pulitzer and Making ‘Hamlet’ a Comedy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Becoming available to English readers at a time when the media are daily reporting Turkey's potentially ominous border standoff with Syria, Silent House usefully illuminates the recent historical pressures on one combatant. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z

The spare, subtle use of video to illuminate certain entries in this “Book of Days” also tended to work much better than most new-music-meets-multimedia conceits. Two Downtown Luminaries, Still Blazing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Featuring actors including Corey Feldman and Todd Bridges, it sought to illuminate the culture of child sexual exploitation in Hollywood and contained numerous references to Singer. R Kelly, Michael Jackson and Bryan Singer. Who knew? Everyone 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Though the final emphatic climax was achieved with suitable flourish, this was not a particularly illuminating interpretation. BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z

Vivid Sydney is an annual event where immersive light installations and projections illuminate the city from 24 May until 10 June. Vivid Sydney timelapse: a spectacular canvas of light covers city landmarks - video 2013-05-25T15:12:07Z

The very experience that theatre seeks to illuminate. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The founder and artistic director of her organization Brownbody, she illuminates the African diaspora through a blend of figure skating, modern dance and social justice. The Week in Arts: A Renaissance Gem, Isabelle Huppert, Uta Hagen 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

A seemingly nude male figure stands illuminated behind a curtain. Photographed secretly at home: Is it art? 2013-05-17T14:41:00Z

Those who spoke during the ceremony stood in front of a shining cross, towering choir stalls, and giant pillars illuminated with glowing yellow lights. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Less inflammatory but similarly illuminating are two documentaries that plumb political dimensions through intensely personal stories of soccer obsession — both by the Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu. These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Quadirikiri Cave, illuminated by sunlight beaming through several openings on the ceiling, is near the park’s exit. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The result is a memoir enlarged and illuminated by Woolf’s insights, but mediated by Smyth’s trenchant observations and wit. Review | A woman tries to understand her late father — with the help of Virginia Woolf 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

This sign is like a light illuminating a cave most people never enter. New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

The letter was heartbreaking, and so was Sugar’s response, which used her signature method of telling stories from her life to illuminate the problem. The Trailblazer: Q&A with Wild author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed 2012-06-14T14:46:49Z

Borage blossoms have been strategically placed around the perimeter of the plate, illuminating the dish like evening stars. Jean-Louis Palladin was D.C.’s original celebrity chef. But his legacy is complicated. 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Another Mainer, author Stephen King, illuminated the problem when he invented a homicidal car named Christine. Eat more roadkill! It’s the most ethical meat 2014-03-09T16:30:00Z

The most intriguing visual effect was how the strings, illuminated with red light to resemble lasers, played off the lines created by the dancers’ angled arms and legs. Dance Review: Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian Collaborate 2014-02-16T21:32:46Z

O’Toole is a gifted narrator with a knack for illuminating the significance of well-known people and events. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

In this respect the early chapters are the most illuminating. Works of Glass 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In another room, reflections from 19 illuminated disco balls, two mounted on a revolving turntable, glimmer and flash across the dark ceiling like a sped-up cosmo-scape. With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

In writing this illuminating biography of James “Cool Papa” Bell, Lonnie Wheeler was faced with sketchy records, chaotic seasons and organizations that mutated constantly. Review | Best audiobooks to listen to now 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

And yet I find that the moments when the show seems to illuminate something crucially American don’t live in its stories of by-your-own-bootstraps or anyone-can-do-it success but, rather, in the rupturing of these myths. The Great American Obstacle Course 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Looking over my top ten political books for teenagers, I find the list pretty illuminating. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z

Not long into our watch, illuminated splotches started to appear on the water’s surface. Despite the Caribbean country’s name, Turks and Caicos is not a duo like Batman and Robin 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki employed a demonstratively nimbler and more insightful style as he ran down the minutiae of district and state races, but even that didn't illuminate much about the greater meaning of each result. TV news learned nothing from 2016: Sports-style election coverage remains terrible and short-sighted 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Devised by Melissa Ichiuji, the steel Amazon holds six burning houses, illuminated from inside, in her six hands. Review | In the galleries: Animator finds playful inspiration on both sides of the border 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Langston Hughes used his poetry to illuminate the perils of black life. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

It’s illuminating and fascinating and it’s one of the things that inspired me to do the work that I do. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

In this column we publish stories about human relationships, hoping to illuminate some facet of love. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z

Andrew Mueller From the grim shores of the Thames to the illuminated London Eye, the final episode of this season of Law & Order shows London as both terribly grim and rather picturesque. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z

The disheartening fate of FilmStruck illuminates not just the churn and change cinema is enduring but also some of the medium’s eternal truths. Perspective | The death of FilmStruck: Erasing cinema’s history will have only a negative effect on its future 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

You see this in her work; it illuminates “Preludes and Fugues” even in its stripped-down rehearsal state. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Seeing art in its architectural context is enlightening, but so is seeing it with the proper lighting, and in the illuminating context of the full spectrum of an artist’s career. Perspective | Seeing Tintoretto in Venice is very nice. But so is seeing his works in a well-lit museum. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Does anyone really care about the wall sconces that illuminate their plates as much as the food that sits on them? ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: It's the Shakespeare, Not the Stage, That Matters 2011-07-14T16:19:01Z

If the similarities between the images are always apparent, the differences are illuminating. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

As she tilts the machine, her mesmerizing, architectural animations illuminate a smooth white wall, slide across a window and corner and activate the floor. Seattle’s Oxbow gallery offers an unusual way to support artists 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

It was illuminating, but as I wandered around, a number of unsettling thoughts gripped me. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z

Busoni was represented not with one of his popular transcriptions but with his Sonatina seconda, a work, radical in its time, that illuminates the composer’s interest in atonality. Music Review: Marc-André Hamelin at the 92nd Street Y 2013-02-03T21:47:53Z

At one point, Banfield Norris shared her frustration with the entire scandal, illuminating the issue of racial inequality. Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade on college admissions scandal: "I don’t deserve pity" 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

A “Bloomers to Bikinis” exhibit illuminates this little-known chapter in women’s rights. In Fort Lauderdale, a hall of fame to dive deep into

Hersh does not so much address his listeners as commune with them, and thus illuminate for them his chosen composers' most interior thoughts and feelings. Review: Hersh recital opens Olympic Music Festival season 2010-07-04T18:03:00Z

Partridge builds bridges to this audience by using the words of Americans who were young at the time of the Vietnam War, and including a wealth of black-and-white photographs that illuminate diverse American experiences. How Do We Tell a New Generation of Teenagers About the Vietnam War? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z