Sentence examples for enlightened argument from inspiring English sources
It was a clear and enlightened argument, reminiscent of the prelapsarian Mr Blair of the 1990s.
All it takes is something as superficial as the Metaphysics 101 argument, or the following even less enlightening argument, "The proposition that snow is white is true; therefore, some proposition is true; therefore, there are propositions".
Mr. Friedman's argument for the "enlightened" nature of the Chinese leadership hinges on its embrace of renewable energy technology.
Appeals to justice and obligations to deliver on commitments made at global summits are less effective than arguments that demonstrate enlightened self-interest, and the damage that current policies do to both consumers and the poorest people on earth.
They don't necessarily want to be enlightened to the fact that their argument is frivolous".
Written and directed by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor, who five years ago made "The New Asylums," a documentary examining the treatment of mentally ill offenders in the Ohio prison system, the new film bears the distinct characteristics of a "Frontline" offering: dolorous, reproachful, illuminating in detail if not enlightening in its arguments.
This argument is perfectly understandable: The laws are hateful, and enlightened, modern and Western-oriented people in the opposition feel demeaned by having to take on the laws' supporters, armed as they are with eggs and stones and medieval rhetoric.
Propaganda, by contrast, is the reasoned use of historical and scientific arguments to indoctrinate the educated and so-called "enlightened" members of society, such as party members.
His argument that sustaining Britain's commitment to foreign development aid is about "enlightened self-interest" – his most frequently uttered phrase of the day – was uncontroversial at NYU, at least.
