Victoria Hanley

Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

American Novelist

Tristan Wilds

I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.

American Actor

Pope Francis

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Argentinian Clergyman

Pawel Pawlikowski

Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

Polish Director

Merce Cunningham

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

American Dancer

Lionel Shriver

Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.

American Journalist

Rutger Bregman

The real 'Lord of the Flies' is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.

Dutch Historian

Stan Lee

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

American Writer

Helen Craig

If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.

English Writer

Genesis P-Orridge

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

English Musician

Use 'illustrate' to make a point clearer, like adding visual aids to a verbal explanation.

Clarification

'Illustrate' can strengthen an argument by giving concrete examples.

Persuasive Speech

'Illustrate' in artistic contexts refers to adding images that complement or explain the text.

Visual Imagery

When 'illustrate' is about art, it implies the person has drawing or artistic ability.

Artistic Skills

Use 'illustrate' to show evidence that supports an academic or scientific claim.

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'Illustrate' sometimes means showing a concept indirectly through examples, not just visually.

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 and take their perspective to say a little ant walking around little ants are so small that they can access all the dimensions the long dimension but also this clockwise counterclockwise direction and I hope you appreciate this it took so long to get these ants to do this but this illustrates the fact that

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 and it's another to see it. So here is a real preserved human brain. And it's going to illustrate two key areas that we are going to talk about today. The first is the prefrontal cortex, right behind your forehead, critical for things like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality.

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 and then taught them about his heavenly father -- affectionate, forgiving, and attentive. Then, he would invite everyone to a common table to illustrate his Kingdom of God, outcasts, sinners, and saints all eating together. He had only three years before his unconventional wisdom

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 observation of a group of killer whales successfully overcoming a challenges significant under the blue whale is both incredibly rare and immensely inspiring their cooperative effort and outcome of ordered focus and group will powerfully illustrates the simple tenets that many

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 characteristic of wave behavior. The idea that particles behave like waves, and vice versa, is one of the strangest and most powerful in physics. Richard Feynman famously said that this illustrates the central mystery of quantum mechanics. Everything else follows from this,

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 of the universe it begs the question of how anything could bore a hole through space the wormhole is basically like a tunnel through space itself that can connect one region to another region potentially very far away so to illustrate that we're taking space and

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 These prizes illustrated his lifelong commitment to sciences and his passion for literature. But what about peace? Because Nobel's name was tied to inventions used in the war industry, many have assumed that he created the peace prize out of regret.

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 and help people understand the actions that really make a difference, and to focus on ideas that do add up. Let me illustrate this with what physicists call a back-of-envelope calculation. We love back-of-envelope calculations.

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 What's the matter? Are you afraid of vampires? He he, no need to worry, I'm not staying for dinner. I'm here to guide you through a brief history of vampires, illustrating how our image has changed from a shambling corpse

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 more than any other this time has illustrated why the health of this sea is so vital to the life within it

Illustrate

To give examples to make something easier to understand.

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To draw pictures for a book, magazine, etc.

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To show something, to be proof or evidence of something.

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