A study in denial, "American Anarchist" may be illuminating for being unilluminating.
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He remained on the attack and she on the defensive, so he likely won the exchange, but on questions of climate policy it was unilluminating.
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Several justices asked no questions or only unilluminating ones, and others interrogated both sides vigorously, making it unusually hard to draw definitive conclusions about where the court seemed headed in the case, Kelly v.
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Unfolding mainly in dingy rooms, whose cheap curtains barely obscure the miserable Manchester streets beyond, this doggedly unilluminating portrait opens in 1976 with the 17-year-old Morrissey (a game Jack Lowden) immersed in Oscar Wilde and the New York Dolls.
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So give some credit to the writer and director Simon Stone's otherwise unilluminating "Medea" for making us think — with personal concern as well as generic terror — about what it must have felt like to be the progeny of its rage-filled title character.
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It's curiously unilluminating to read a metallurgical analysis of a pulverized iPhone, or to watch Merchant trudge around the globe on a kind of iCalvary in search of the raw materials Apple uses — through a Stygian Bolivian tin mine and a lithium mine in the Chilean desert and an e-waste dump in Nairobi where many iPhones end up.
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Part IV, p. 1, 14. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote, "Cinematographer Sven Nykvist puts on a swell show, performing one stunning feat of luminosity after another, but director Maximilian Schell is compulsively unilluminating about matters of theme and character and historical period and continuity."Arnold, Gary (November 14, 1970).
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The early proofs of quadratic reciprocity are relatively unilluminating. The situation changed when Gauss used Gauss sums to show that quadratic fields are subfields of cyclotomic fields, and implicitly deduced quadratic reciprocity from a reciprocity theorem for cyclotomic fields. His proof was cast in modern form by later algebraic number theorists. This proof served as a template for class field theory, which can be viewed as a vast generalization of quadratic reciprocity.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred in part in the Court's opinion and concurred in the judgment of the Court. She parted from the majority in the way she applied different factors to see whether the case was barred by the political question doctrine. Sotomayor argued that if "the parties' textual, structural, and historical evidence is inapposite or wholly unilluminating, rendering judicial decision no more than guesswork, a case relying on the ordinary kinds of arguments offered to courts might well still present justiciability concerns".
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Once we have begun discovering things about the universe that work for us, science sets out to explain why these discoveries do so. It’s clear that one explanation for why things work for us that we have to rule out as unilluminating, indeed question begging, is that they work for us because they work for us. If something works for us, enables us to meet our needs and wants, then there has to be an explanation for why it does so, reflecting facts about us and the world that produce the needs and the means to satisfy them. The explanation of why scientific methods work for us must be a causal explanation.
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