illustrating

Meaning

of Illustrate

Synonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity. Alfred North Whitehead

In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst. Peter Greenaway

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. Brian Selznick

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. Josiah Royce

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. Paul Conrad