Sentence examples for bringing enlightenment from inspiring English sources

She holds aloft her torch, bringing "enlightenment" to women in those states still in the dark.

In many ways, Rabbi Sofer's battle against moisture cure is a variation on a very old Jewish theme -- the rabbi as teacher and sage, bringing enlightenment to the community.

The subject is colonialism in Africa, which, as Kentridge points out, was justified by the European powers as bringing enlightenment to the Dark Continent, and the piece makes reference to the near-annihilation by German colonial troops, in 1904, of the Herero tribe in German Southwest Africa — now Namibia.

At the same time, I was living in San Francisco, where there were Facebook employees who seemed to believe they were bringing enlightenment and freedom to the oppressed masses of the world, evicting Latino families who'd lived in the same place for 60 years.

Far from bringing enlightenment, social media have been spreading poison.

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"Artists, like other intellectuals, question taboos, challenge norms, bring enlightenment," he said.

None of these quite connects with the others, or not enough to bring enlightenment.

The 18th century was optimistic that business could bring prosperity; and that prosperity, in its turn, could bring enlightenment.

He was unconvinced that the Dalai Lama would be able to bring enlightenment to those still pursing violent means.

With my enhanced mind and brain, it is my duty to bring enlightenment to all those lesser beings.