One article enlightens readers on how two Nokia mobiles, two HP printers, cheap explosives and three months' work for a team of "less than six," has forced Barack Obama to frantically pump dollars into airport security, further weakening the American economy.
Roman "der Bauer" Hartung enlightens your reporter: "It's liquid nitrogen," he says.
Muldoon entertains almost as much as he enlightens, an unusual and refreshing approach.
Because his name in Hebrew means "fire of God" or "light of God," he has been variously identified in Jewish traditions as an angel of thunder and earthquake, as the wielder of the fiery sword in driving from the Garden of Eden, as the destroyer of the hosts of Sennacherib, as the figure who enlightens Ezra with visions, and, generally, as an angel of terror, prophecy, or mystery.
The meeting between these two very different people observed and in the end told by a narrator who turns out to be the French woman's German husband, in many ways a stand-in for the author Kleeberg himself leads to a process of intercultural negotiation and recognition that ultimately enlightens, even if it does not completely satisfy, all participants.
This personal history of a huge country, carefully selected both by Sigg and Whitworth's curators, enlightens us painlessly to the turmoil of this amazing country.
Ultimately, all good fiction is entertainment, and, if it instructs or enlightens, it does so best through enchanting the reader.
From Chapter 37, as Will enlightens Dorothea about Casaubon's intellectual inadequacies: "Now when she looked steadily at her husband's failure, still more at his possible consciousness of failure, she seemed to be looking along the one track where duty became tenderness".
College exposes future citizens to material that enlightens and empowers them, whatever careers they end up choosing.
The world at large, of course, is not particularly interested in hearing why someone is wrong about magic, or doing magic the wrong way — it's all most people can do to turn up once a year at a magic show for their kid's birthday — and the magicians Jamy thinks are wrong certainly don't want to hear it, and so, like all intellectuals, he probably exasperates as many people as he enlightens.
Not just the power the rich have over the poor — which, in his world, they never fail to exploit — but the power of women, which he generally views as vampiric and alluring, a life force that both poisons and enlightens.
