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This point can be illustrated by two brief examples.

The book was illustrated by Robert May.

In this chapter typical examples of the kinds of fossils most commonly encountered are illustrated by beautiful specimens.

Now she has illustrated a second, equally funny story about the time the maiden Belinda is captured by a wicked knight.

► see thesaurus at draw → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus illustrate 3 TCN to put pictures in a book, article etc Over a hundred diagrams, tables and pictures illustrate the book. This illustrates a fundamental weakness in the system.

illustrate how The following examples illustrate how this operates in practice. 2 SHOW/BE A SIGN OF to be an example which shows that something is true or that a fact exists illustrate that This dispute illustrates that the regime is deeply divided. She illustrated her discussion with diagrams. ○ AWL verb 1 CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTAND to make the meaning of something clearer by giving examples Let me give an example to illustrate the point.

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Yes, Ruth Dickins was convicted of a heinous murder, and sentenced accordingly, but as Lowery makes clear in “Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta,” status–and skin color–can go a long way toward determining how justice is delivered.Illustrate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing, Visual illustrate il‧lus‧trate / ˈɪləstreɪt / The constant turmoil of her father’s suspect business practices in this tumultuous time marked Lowery’s childhood though she made it out, earning awards for her writing from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.īack in the Delta, though, at a time stamped by social upheavals not seen since the Civil War, Ruth’s indictment and conviction remind us that while some have called the region “‘the most Southern place on Earth,’” and “‘cotton-obsessed and negro-obsessed,’” a place also once thought “the poorest, blackest region in the country,” race certainly mattered. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that sought to desegregate public schools. Lowery uses the story to periodically explain her family’s connection to the Delta, where her father, someone she only later realized was a flim flam man, kept the family always one step ahead of his creditors, while as a teen she had to chart her way through changes–social and cultural–including her desire to come out as a debutante, as well as the decision by Earl Warren’s Supreme Court in Brown vs. No one, however, was identified as the culprit, and soon suspicion fell on the daughter, the motive being financial troubles and family strife. Ruth, 42 and married to prominent landowner and planter John Dickins, was described by a family member as “‘plain as an old shoe.’” Claiming she’d encountered “a negro’” running from the scene, police followed Ruth’s assessment and put out alerts. ‘Pink’ Gorman, who found, 'Clearly, (Thompson had) been severely assaulted, her head and hands ‘all cut up,’ her clothes and body ‘bloody all over.’” Near the body, “A pair of metal pruning shears lay on the bathroom floor next to her head.” Otherwise the scene was oddly tidy.Īnd the murder scene lay open to others even while the investigation continued, the front door wide open and both neighbors and other investigators coming and going without regard to first finding clues. But more about that later.īotched in a host of ways by investigators, including Leland police chief Frank Aldridge and officer Phillip P. Author Beverly Lowery, a native of the same Mississippi Delta region, returned to nearby Greenville in 2018 where she was reminded of the long ago tragedy, and picked up the story both to reanimate history, and to revisit the turmoil of her own Delta upbringing, marked by a father who could never seem to find his footing, but who was always about to land on the next big thing.