revelatory


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Synonyms for revelatory

(usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly

prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

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Baker has made a provocative and revelatory book, and he has been excellently served by his publishers who have laid on copious quantifies of illustrations closely related to the text.
This guide approaches the difficulties of grasping Blake's extravagant and revelatory works by offering a variety of critical and historical explanations.
But just as Dasgupta introduces this revelatory moment, his characters depart, without our having had anything more than a glimpse of them.
He infuses recurring, revelatory pieces about the emotional effects of a father's absenteeism to complement the ever-unfurling theme of ingenuousness.
When the editors at the San Francisco Chronicle told me they were interested in continuing it [in 1976], I had one of those great revelatory moments when you run down the street and click your heels in the air--and I mean that literally--because you know you're on to something really good.
Ken Doyle is introduced in his place, and he is bound to have his work cut out against veteran Vinny Claffey, who was in revelatory form against Meath in the last round - his four points that day went a long way towards afamous win for the midlanders.
Beside the potential for salaciousness contained in Francisca's story (as well as its misogynistic note of skepticism), it is revelatory of what might be termed the socially real "beata solution." Unable to enter a convent because she lacked an education and perhaps also because of detractors, Francisca constructed a religious mode of living outside the convent as other women had done, living at home alone or in beaterios (communities of such like-minded women who dedicated themselves to God).
It'll be a combination of upgrading and polishing Martha's pieces enough to keep them revelatory to her audience as well as bringing in new creative artists to work with her aesthetic."
Newton pairs the texts so that they speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways.
The disruptive effect is jolting and revelatory since the addiction to the black flow is so consuming that no modern state can remain a state without oil.
Wilson doesn't turn up anything especially revelatory about what makes the likes of Charles Manson and David Koresh tick, but at least you'll now know to avoid their type - men with dysfunctional childhoods, a dominant streak and insatiable sexual needs.
Szonyi, "Architectural Symbolism and Fantasy Landscapes in Alchemical and Occult Discourse: Revelatory Images"; Stanton J.
It was used to compose a body of works unequaled in revelatory power, primordial rituals of mystical intensity celebrating an ancient, but consciously remembered, matriarchy.
For those who admire Althoff's "traditional" works but remain unaware of his German exhibitions or his jumbled and messy 1997 US debut at Kern, the ICA show was revelatory. It may also have spawned doubts: How, for instance, can one reconcile the Althoff of the often delectable paintings and drawings with the other artist, who seems indifferent to facture, or even legibility, in so many of the works on view?
"It's my first mature work," says the 55-yearold, who cast a revelatory Gillian Anderson in the lead role of Lily Bart even though he'd never seen a single episode of The X-Files.