To speed their rise in manufacturing, nations like Japan and Germany kept their currencies super-low and practiced widespread mercantilism, all the while facing virtually no pressure from benighted Anglophone policymakers, who had bought in postindustrialism.
Not just from poor benighted Teddy, or a Bernard still loyal to the man he was built to resemble, but from Maeve, the hooker with a heart.
Science flees the past as benighted; religion gets its bearings from the wisdom of the past.
And some of it probably derived from marketing consultants' benighted faith that any problem can be solved if the marketing is good enough.
And you might learn why the airlines are currently benighted, what the consequence of carbon emissions from airplanes might be and whether companies are wasting money on air travel for employees.
Alongside the camels, leather work and spices on offer is another much sought-after commodity these days – illegal passage from some of the worlds most benighted nations to Europe.
"Dark Horse" may be his warmest, most generous movie, but it also casts a beam of empathy backward, illuminating the baffled, benighted, icky souls who have populated Mr. Solondz's universe from the start.
But the biggest problem for many businessmen may be benighted government policies.These start with Germany's "energy transition," a plan to exit simultaneously from fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
So here's what I wish: the next time that you read a quotation from anyone (that would include me) that you find "appalling," contact that benighted soul directly.
And the conventional wisdom from the left has relied on the bitter comments of snobs like Henry Adams, who slandered Grant as the avatar of the crass, benighted Gilded Age.
