Sentence examples for by enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Born of revolutions, America and France each established republics inspired by Enlightenment thinking, and based on freedom and individual rights.

The Earthly Leonard is still, thankfully, dancing around the wheel of desire, like the rest of us, eluded by enlightenment.

By the early 19th century, dueling had been shunned and ridiculed by Enlightenment thinkers as a vestige of feudalism.

"Liberty has visited America and is now marching into the rest of the world, led by enlightenment.

Indeed, many key interests driving the Internet look much more like the particular interests deplored by Enlightenment thinkers than interests shared by all.

Conceived as "a portrait gallery of foreigners conquered by Enlightenment France," Fumaroli's book provides biographical essays about a diverse and fascinating cast of characters.

"Hippies were the fireworks of freedom," an Istanbul journalist declares at the beginning of "Magic Bus," Rory MacLean's retracing of the eastward path traveled by enlightenment-hungry pilgrims in the 1960s and '70s.

America may have somehow been influenced by Enlightenment-era Bavarian Illuminati ideals.

Late-20th-century works dealing with issues churned up by the Enlightenment, by artists ranging from Joseph Beuys, and Georg Baselitz to Andy Warhol, conclude the exhibition.

After all, Christianity had the Reformation, so goes the argument, which was followed by the Enlightenment; by secularism, liberalism and modern European democracy.

The explosion of science and technology unleashed by the Enlightenment was stimulated by the dismantling of the entrenched elites and monopolies, opening up society to talent.