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Example sentences for "throwing light"

  • The correspondence is of interest as throwing light on other matters also.

  • The following extracts from a letter written by the Transport Board to Mr. Delafons on his appointment to the office are of interest as throwing light on the nature of his duties.

  • Here the passage interests us as throwing light on the way in which /S/a.nkara systematises.

  • But this reproach rests on the assumption that the passages referred to in the first adhyâya were chosen for the purpose of throwing light on what Brahman is, and this assumption can hardly be upheld.

  • They recall the converse of those gifted men who pass from theme to theme, throwing light on all, but not exhausting any.

  • This may seem a trivial subject; but, after Carlyle, we can hardly deny its capability of throwing light on great matters.

  • They are full of interest also as throwing light on the manners and fashions of the time and disclosing the frivolities which in the minds of all the members o£ the court had quite put out of sight the serious objects of life.

  • But, as a means of throwing light on the inadequacy of such speculations, it may be well to consider in detail some of those points where the argument most obviously fails in premises, method, and results.

  • The more genial satiric pieces, again, are chiefly interesting as throwing light on the social and literary life of Rome and the provincial towns of Italy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstaining from; arranging them; dear governor; dearest mother; everlasting glory; father should; gesture language; guard against; hath gone; means confined; political events; quite soft; single year; sometimes omitted; spinal cord; straight ahead; the old; throwing herself; throwing himself; throwing light; throwing stones; volunteer aide; west angle; when intelligence; will relate