1.   He developed a fresh approach to the genre, looking for telling details to illuminate lives that might otherwise have been overlooked or underreported.

2.   His movies illuminate the lives of his middle- and working-class characters with an intimacy that can be hilarious, corrosive, embarrassing and deeply moving.

3.   In his books he told and retold the ancient tales, using the interpretive techniques of modern scholarship to illuminate the lives of ancient Jews.

4.   It was a priceless chunk of everyday history that illuminated the lives of ordinary people.

5.   Still, he said, the work that has been done will help illuminate the lives of the earliest Americans, although its significance has yet to be determined.

6.   This clever novel uses the principles of natural selection to illuminate the life of its heroine, a young American woman visiting the Galapagos Islands.

7.   Where so many movies aspire and fail to illuminate the lives of so-called everyday people, this one succeeds.

8.   He was credited with using a fresh approach to writing obituaries, finding key details to illuminate lives that might otherwise have been overlooked or underreported.