Meantime, whatever her immediate future may be, Russia's transformation has clarified the issue and justified her place with the allied democracies.

Since their momentous conversation in which John had attempted to revise the fundamentals of their life together, they had not reverted to the main theme of it; had clarified, merely, one or two of its more immediate conclusions.

"If he escaped it would clarify the situation tremendously.

Sustained discourse may unflaggingly clarify or animate.