👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly beast of a phrase - "…absolutely all illuminating!" Honestly, I feel like the pointy-elbowed badger of adjectives whenever I unpack that one.
Basically? When you throw out that wholehearted declaration, you're essentially shouting into the face of dullness and saying, "Okay, okay! What we were previously in the dark about? BAM! Now it’s… pretty clear, isn’t it? Like a very well-lit badger, frankly. Except hopefully not actually a badger. Unless that badger has really good insights. ." Let's break down what it means beyond just saying something is bright and understandable. There's an almost desperate quality to the "…absolutely…!" – you feel like this information was previously being actively, shamefully withheld, and now we’ve finally unearthed it! It carries a slight whiff of triumphant unveiling. The problem, as I see it, is that the sheer amount of emphatic exclamation makes it sound... somewhat performative? You almost suspect the truth might not actually be that immediately dazzling. We are, after all, quite capable of being told something with an unnecessarily grand fanfare. It's a little like when you get a dentist bill and they say, "…and that is, absolutely… your total! Here you go. ." (I'm kidding...mostly.) Now for the unsettling sentence. Here
