Sentence examples for benighted times from inspiring English sources

All of which, no doubt, is a healthy message in our benighted times.

T.S. Eliot might have said the same of companies, had he been a corporate image consultant; but he lived in benighted times, before civilisation developed that fine art.

For people who were around in the crime-ridden 1980's and near-bankrupt 1970's, the echoes of those benighted times are unsettling.

In those benighted times, video games hardly rated a blip on the mass-entertainment and cultural radar — that took a few more years and the likes of the Wii and World of Warcraft.

You have to go clear back to 1000 C.E. — or 1000 A.D. as it was styled in those benighted times — to find a similar decade-plus-long interval of calendrical clumsiness.

As with everything else in these benighted times of the coalition government (yes, your lot, Mr Huhne), support to the younger generation has become privatised along with the rest.

It must have been a benighted time, given the treatment the so-called Protector accords his wife, who is variously called the Woman or Agnès, her real name.

They had met as two highly repressed and untutored virgins of their benighted time, and a true sexual connection never formed.

It was a benighted time in the history most of us raced through in school, skipping lightly through Charlemagne and Richard the Lion-Hearted, the Norman Conquest and the Crusades, and arriving none too soon at the time of Leonardo and Michelangelo, Columbus and da Gama, Erasmus and Luther.

Today, of course, the page seems sad and amateurish a quaint, GeoCities-looking remnant of a benighted time.

Our guide to this seemingly benighted time is Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), a Welsh noblewoman who is a distant cousin of the Danish king, Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard).