Revelatory

Word REVELATORY
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Definitions and meanings of "Revelatory"

What do we mean by revelatory?

Of, relating to, or containing a revelation. adjective

Having the nature or character of a revelation.

Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation adjective

Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic adjective

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

Prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom adjective

Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation

Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic

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The word "revelatory" in example sentences

The most revelatory is I Am an American Soldier: One Year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(I also agree that the police, corporately and at the higher echelons, have lost sight of what matters; but this isn’t revelatory, is it?) ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

She has still put it together in revelatory ways, underscoring the generation-wide impact of her subjects’ songs and stories .... ❋ Unknown (2008)

William McNeil, Plagues & Peoples: This had a kind of revelatory quality to me, the idea that everything you thought was important about history was actually kind of trivial and the real determinants of human destiny are something else entirely. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Interviewer Ryan Tubridy sought the advice of Jon Snow ahead of the interview but was warned it would be difficult to extract anything 'revelatory' out of Tony Blair. ❋ Carroll In Dublin (2010)

As for John Leech's office - are you expecting some kind of revelatory comment from me on that? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here's a quiet little poem by one of my favorite poets, Eamon Grennan, which demonstrates, in its patient, painterly way, how an accumulation of sense-based details can develop a kind of revelatory momentum. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

The latter half of Cult of Flesh is basically a series of sexual encounters that are "revelatory" in the worst sense--in the sense that they prompt the characters to spout long passages at each other that blend faux-Satanism with poor paraphrases of Norman O. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In other words, I don't find that seamy or steamy sex plays the kind of revelatory role to which so many authors assign it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Rather, we are thrown back on the claims of his first disciples that they had some kind of revelatory experiences ( "appearances") that convinced them that Jesus was alive. ❋ Sheehan, Thomas (1984)

The research, ordered by Thomson Holidays and proclaimed by both parties as "revelatory", might just change the way the holiday industry goes about selling its packages in the future. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Munn's books have been widely reviewed and variously praised for the "revelatory", ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each new fact was punctuated by an overdramatic pause by the reporter, like she was laying some kind of revelatory "There is no Santa" bombshell on a bunch of seven year olds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fiercest and most vital of our feelings - anger, jealousy and malice - find themselves, if not at rest, but in a kind of revelatory grace by the time the titles roll. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Times, asked readers to recall "revelatory" performances that changed the way they thought about familiar characters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well said - isn't it odd how most of these "revelatory" leaks bolster old propaganda? ❋ Agnès Poirier (2010)

This is a first rate documentary film, and Brown brings forward the kind of revelatory material that I expect from the likes of Errol ❋ Unknown (2010)

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