Sentence examples for enlightened things from inspiring English sources

As he never tired of saying, one of the most purely enlightened things that the British parliament has ever done was, in 1753, to create a place where "all studious and curious persons" could study all of the world, through all of time.

Companies can do all kinds of enlightened things to develop and retain women -- and still have only limited success.

There's a fair share of cheezy corn pone littering the gorgeous beach towns near SLO (otherwise stunning Avila Beach seems particularly afflicted, though the bustling acai and quinoa hotbed of Kravabowl is a harbinger of enlightened things to come).

Mystic Friend: Do you think that, if everyone in the world were enlightened, things would be much different?

Re "Giuliani Dropping His Bitter Battle With Art Museum" (front page, March 28): The enlightened thing for the mayor to do now is to reverse course dramatically and increase financing to the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

His scepticism about US intentions in the Middle East sets him apart from all other British, let alone American, correspondents; it is as if the P-I, after listening to Bush's address to the nation on Monday night, had turned to Jacques Chirac for a more enlightened view of things.

So I love playing those kinds of characters and hope that, if not with "Enlightened," with other things, I get to explore that uncomfortableness in drama and comedy.

He said, "Every private-sector entrepreneur has this incredible bias toward letting enlightened self-interest pull things forward, and I fully believe that will happen".

The idea that Britain might bear some responsibility for the woes of Cyprus seems not to have occurred to him.Even where the enlightened West did bad things, these were aberrations from a broadly virtuous trajectory; where the tyrannical east (from Darius to Osama bin Laden) committed sins, they were no better than anybody could expect that is what Mr Pagden implies.

Combing through sermons and theological tracts, as well as novels, films, music and art, Prothero shows how Americans over two centuries have remade Jesus in their own image, as, among other things, an enlightened sage, the black Moses and a Haight-Ashbury hippie.

Rosenzweig ends by listing five things that enlightened managers should know: 1. Good strategies involve risk, and no strategy is foolproof.