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Literary notes about Reveal (AI summary)

In literature, the word reveal serves as a multifaceted device to bring hidden truths, emotions, and identities into light. It can denote the unveiling of mystical secrets, as in the reference to an unexposed heart falling short of its full disclosure ([1]), or the gradual unfolding of a character’s inner nature and concealed desires ([2], [3]). At times, reveal functions as a narrative turning point, where forbidden or unspoken knowledge is finally brought forward to alter the course of events ([4], [5]). Meanwhile, in philosophical and theological texts, it is employed to denote the manifestation of profound truths—whether divine or natural—that remain latent until the act of disclosure occurs ([6], [7], [8]). This delicate interplay between concealment and revelation underscores its enduring role as both a literal and metaphorical bridge between the seen and the unseen.
  1. A further significance there was, indeed; but one does not reveal fully the heart of an amulet.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  2. Your shoulders are white, your rosy bosoms reveal themselves through a rose-coloured gauze, trimmed with bows of the same hue.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  3. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret.
    — from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. "Then why not reveal it here?" asked Roger Chillingworth, glancing quietly aside at the minister.
    — from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. Yet, with all this, you made me reveal what you wanted to know.
    — from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. No connection could be closer than this reciprocal involution, as nature and life reveal it; but the connection is natural, not dialectical.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  7. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  8. Let us look to the great principle of gradation, and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin

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