Sentence examples for enlightenment from the from inspiring English sources

I have been on a political journey of enlightenment from the Thatcherite right to the political centre ground.

During the Cold War, "the West" was a ubiquitous phrase, signifying everything from NATO to the Enlightenment, from the Christian faith to the free market.

One might expect enlightenment from the new captain, Eoin Morgan, on Tuesday before the flight from Heathrow except that he is already in Australia plying his trade for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash.

I've been beetling after enlightenment from the word go," he proclaims confidently, near the book's opening – he gradually discovers that transcending not only the world's temptations but the complications thrown up by one's character and desires is a rather more convoluted business.

I never expected to find existential enlightenment from the pages of a porn magazine.

And if we can get that enlightenment from the comfort of our own screens, so much the better.

That would vindicate the democratic educational dream of the Enlightenment, from which the first world museums grew.

Voltaire's influence is palpably present, for example, in Kant's famous argument in his essay "What is Enlightenment?" that Enlightenment stems from the free and public use of critical reason, and from the liberty that allows such critical debate to proceed untrammeled.

A sensuous poet and a radical defender of the Enlightenment from Voltaire to the French Revolution, Kellgren used his literary and intellectual skills to attack superstition and criticize a broad array of social vices.

Civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment, from sceptics, scientists, mockers and philosophers, who destroyed their myths and exposed the immorality of their taboos.

On Thursday evening, she makes her New York conducting debut, leading the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Choir of the Enlightenment, from Britain, at Alice Tully Hall.