Sentence examples for enlightened ones from inspiring English sources

Some institutions, even culturally enlightened ones, feel threatened by this insistence.

But at least Yahweh had strong moral views, occasionally enlightened ones, about how the Israelites should behave.

At the time of the Soviet invasion, Dr. Kafash said, Herat had probably a thousand intellectuals ("enlightened ones" was the phrase he used in Persian).

They became Nuristanis, "enlightened ones", and their rugged mountain land is one of the centres of the war against the Taliban.

The remix turns out to have a complex subject: the various ways in which a dark and distorted version of gay life has been an object of pity, horror, and fascination for straight audiences, even "enlightened" ones, through the years.

In the 1790s more-radical secret societies emerged, modeled after the Illuminati ("Enlightened Ones") founded in Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law, which promoted free thought and democratic political theories.

She hoped for a chance to tell the story of her transformation, and to replace the image of the petulant, hateful teen-age Bryan with a mature, enlightened one.

You are not a therapist, a nutritionist, a doctor, a chiropractor or an all knowing enlightened one (unless you actually are).

Healy in particular reaffirmed his status as a piece of work; he could seem almost enlightened one minute but could slide right into rage the next.

On Immunity is the result: an enthralling, deeply personal book that's by turns lyrical and impassioned, lucid and enlightening – one woman's journey to discover the best way forward for her son, herself and the communities of which we are all a part.

Lucarelli called the situation "a farce", but it has turned out to be an enlightening one – the team's collapse has put under the spotlight the utterly frail state of a league that little more than a decade ago was the best in the world.