Sentence examples for enlighten it from inspiring English sources

A man of pedestrian middlebrow cultural tastes, he "fitted all too well into the staid and conventional atmosphere of America in the 50's, and unfortunately did nothing to uplift or enlighten it".

Causal Efficacy: In this argument, Malebranche begins by noting that ideas are causally efficacious 'since they act upon the mind and enlighten it' and 'make it happy or unhappy through pleasant or unpleasant perceptions by which they affect it' (3.2.6, OC 1 442; LO 232).

"That sounds so enlightened it puts me on my guard," he said.

Painless and enlightening, it forced us to focus on the marriage itself.

It's one thing to walk away from an eight-course dinner feeling enlightened; it's another altogether to leave feeling revitalized.

By Silvia Killingsworth It's one thing to walk away from an eight-course dinner feeling enlightened; it's another altogether to leave feeling revitalized.

He paints his characters into fantastical narrative corners, then extricates them via some implausibility that shocks the audience without enlightening it.

Even Immanuel Kant entered the fray, arguing that although Europe could not yet claim to be fully "enlightened," it was making impressive progress.

Although he may dispute that the show was enlightening, it is also a fact that authorities like local councils tend to sugar-coat and ignore the urgency of issues such as drug crime.

While one well-known company, Tiffany & Company, seems to be enlightened, it surprises me that most jewelers cannot answer the basic question of where the gold they are selling comes from.

It wasn't humbling or pretty or enlightening, it was mortifying.