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[ verb ] clarify by giving an example of
Used in print (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)Two stories will illustrate what I have_in_mind . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in_that form of liberalism we call Progressivism . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)One of the early humorists already mentioned , Thomas_Bangs_Thorpe , can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover , how to behave , how to think about this new experience , how to exercise restraint . In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover , how to behave , how to think about this new experience , how to exercise restraint . Related terms |
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[ verb ] e.g., illustrate a book with drawings
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Thus such great American documentaries as The_River and The_Plow_That_Broke_the_Plains were composed as visual stories rather_than as illustrated lectures . Related terms |
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