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World War II was the formative experience for more than one generation of British men, women and children, as Mr. Allport illuminatingly shows us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Indeed, in Sharon’s grand scheme for grand opera, one thing is also meant, in ways large and small, to lead illuminatingly to another.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018

These are the things we’ve argued about in the past year and change, sometimes coarsely, sometimes tediously, but very often illuminatingly.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2016

The scene is gross, and not illuminatingly so.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Mr. Dehan at least has proved himself far too clever for me to tolerate this threadbare theme, not very illuminatingly treated, from his valuable pen.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 by Various