"We need more liberal and enlightened political leaders to talk to the people about their reasons.
Rhodes of Africa is not the most enlightened biopic, but it was made in 1936, and is at least slightly less offensive than Rhodes himself.
On the other hand, if the core of a youthful, swashbuckling new side emerge over the course of the summer and the new management team set a course for a more enlightened era in which the ECB is able to look over the next hill rather than down at its feet as it stumbles from crisis to crisis, then they might yet be able to arrest the malaise.
An important part of the moderators' work on the Guardian website is to strive to make the community a welcoming forum for enlightened debate, and at times this will involve removing comments, but these removals will always be in line with the community standards.
The joke at the time was that the French wanted to put their fingers in the Bundesbank till, but they also wanted more enlightened fiscal policies.
In "Vision Europe", the enlightened strategy document published earlier this year, Uefa argued for a "democratic" game of "integrity, sportsmanship and loyalty" with "solidarity" - in which clubs feel they are all part of the same game.
It promises that "ending demand" is an enlightened response to the so-called problem of sex work, but when 98% of Northern Irish sex workers agree that it's a bad idea, it's a bad idea.
He faces being beaten back into his old life, or beating the deeply prejudiced system that even in apparently more enlightened times, never expects, or wants, an unruly, desensitised ruffian to transform into a transgressive, inspirational thinker.
Ngozi Adichie is a new, powerful and incredibly talented voice; her novel Americanah is the expression of a different African tale, of a continent and its people that have many more magnetic stories to tell, as well as critiques to raise about the so-called enlightened West.
There is no historical precedent for the proposition that the procedures of totalitarianism are compatible with the system of enlightened, individual and democratic self-governance.
In most films this would be the voice of Mephistopheles, here it's the voice of enlightened common sense.
