Sentence examples for benighted in from inspiring English sources

London's early-instrument players have attained a level of consistency and quality that is the envy of the world (certainly the envy of New York, so sorely benighted in this regard).

I woke up to find a text saying, "We're benighted in Dent Blanche, can you ring the hut keeper [at the foot of the mountain]." So I rang but no one answered and I thought, "Crap they're all out looking for Dan and his dad!" Spending a night out with no bivouac is a recipe for frostbite or possible death.

Norway may be benighted over this, but Rjukan is no longer benighted in winter.

Many of his columns were collected in books, including "Brideshead Benighted" (in 1986), in which he made it clear that he was offended by everything from foxes to animal rights activists, cabinet members, the British welfare system and people opposed to smoking.

What kind of support is that?" he complains to Walter Barnes John Procaccinoo), his gangly, benighted boss back in Washington.

And second, it reinforces a message to Southerners themselves, particularly whites, that they are in fact benighted and backward — so why change?

They face hostile economics and a decline in benighted platforms in favor of more consumerist outlets that don't care.

Thank heavens, one might say, for America, which is finishing the year with the nearest thing to good economic news to be found on this benighted planet.Growth in the third quarter clocked in at around 2%, and in the fourth quarter it looks likely to be significantly stronger than that.

The Romans, by contrast, left a heavier footprint, even in benighted Britannia, and in Under a Different Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain Cape Charlottete Higgins set out in a camper van to explore and reflect on the remains – an elegant addition to a long antiquarian tradition.

It eschewed postmodern complexity in favor of telling a straightforwardly funny, captivating, autobiographical story about being a thirteen-year-old boy with literary ambitions and the comic misfortune to be stuck in benighted, rural Worcestershire in the early nineteen-eighties (the county and time in which Mitchell came of age: he was born in 1969).

Richard Walter, who is the chairman of U.C.L.A.'s screenwriting program, spoke against the motion, in the vernacular of the benighted community in question.