Sentence examples for enlightened at from inspiring English sources

Ngugi's memoir eloquently telegraphs the complicated experience of being simultaneously oppressed and enlightened at the hands of a colonial regime.

I have been enlightened, at times even mesmerised, at the variety, the strength, the depth and the numbers of experimental books".

The president of the United States will suddenly punch the air at breakfast, enlightened at last; the British prime minister will grow pale and repent as he scans the morning columns.

But, Mr. Eissa said, "He held a lot of views that were considered to be enlightened at a time when the extremist religious tide is rising in Egypt and the Muslim world".

Great Britain at that time had plenty of flaws, but it was not the most corrupt form of government going; it was probably the most enlightened at the time".

It was fascinating to me watching this man squirm around the topic: I'm a Bay Area guy, he told me, I'm pro gay rights, pro gay marriage, but we have to accept that every country becomes enlightened at its own speed and its own way, and the best way for us to encourage that, to promote our values, is to engage with them, to show them the right way of doing things.

It is a shame that the recent renewed hostilities in the Middle East leave Mr Riklis's film feeling curiously irrelevant.Locarno can amaze, frustrate and enlighten at the same time.

But then, whenever Bach used a dance form, it wasn't intended as a social diversion, either, and the issues of period performance theory and aesthetics that Ms. Turocy discussed were enlightening at every turn.

At times wrenching, at times bureaucratic, at times frustrating, at times enlightening, at times just plain intrusive.

She walks into the ocean enlightened and at peace.

Enlightened leaders, at some level, appreciate the burr under the saddle, irritating as it is.