Sentence examples for darkly enlightened from inspiring English sources

Mr. Meyers relates the life crisply and judiciously, with Orwell emerging as a darkly enlightened sort of character whose vision of the world came out of real experience.

Its belief system is unapologetically reactionary, almost feudal … liberal progressivism is seen as a state religion … the darkly enlightened see social hierarchies as determined not by culture or opportunity but by the cold, hard destiny embedded in DNA.

Vocabulary: Stereotypes, zealots, outsize, dissects, lampoons, garnered, darkly, extol, deprived, pious, jihad, notorious, spoof, stratospheric, contradict, sober, sentiment, enlightened, extremism, alter ego, broadsides, secular, queries, credentials, imam Extension Activities: 1. Refer students to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site at www.tolerance.org.org

If Auden had enlightened Britten, then Melville's mentor was the decidedly heterosexual, darkly handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne with whom he became obsessed; in an extraordinarily suggestive image, Melville wrote that Hawthorne "shoots his strong New England roots in the hot soil of my Southern soul".

I'm not enlightened".

He is enlightened, awake.

"You were enlightened?" "No.

JE (enlightened): Oh!

I enlightened her.

It's enlightened self-interest.

I'm now enlightened.