Sentence examples for enlightened time from inspiring English sources

After all, this Alabama in the mid-'60s, hardly an enlightened time in Dixie history.

The joke contained an element of truth; the 1970s were an enlightened time for prison education.

Still, though we are adults now in a more enlightened time, race can appear like a ghost, disrupting the life of our family.

And we know now what Rick's decision is, even if in our enlightened time we may ask whether Ilsa shouldn't have been doing some of the deciding.

And so then, why in what should be a much more enlightened time (our homes now have the Soda Stream™, colour television and plumbed-in pornography) is standup comedian Jimmy Carr being forced to apologise for avoiding tax?

Gauzy-eyed nostalgia for those two men – Ronald Reagan and US House Speaker Thomas P Tip O'Neillll – and the alleged gentler, more enlightened time when they served, reached a fever pitch during the great government shutdown of 2013.

IN LESS enlightened times, nerds were damned to the fringes of society.

Its dark choral opacity — paired with a brilliant video about the hypocrisy of expunging sin — suggests dark but newly enlightened times ahead for the band.

Much has been made from outsiders claiming to know Nina's story and misinforming the public about her legacy, but allow me to share a couple of very intimate moments that I've never shared before from a couple of fun and enlightening times with Nina.

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

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