Sentence examples for enlightened it from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Here is an analysis of despotism and the power of power - you're put in jail for 'little stealings', while for the big thefts, 'they make you emperor' - which has been considered both enlightened (it was the first American play to put the black experience at its centre, in 1920) and repugnant (a mammee-speaker sinks into the primeval).

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.

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

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

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.

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".

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