Sentence examples for evoke enlightenment from inspiring English sources

They have lost much of their power to evoke Enlightenment ideas, except perhaps for cellblocks.

Dreamer sounds like film music; Player evokes Enlightenment-era McCoy Tyner Fireflyy explores Hiromi's rich classical resources; Spirit is gospelly; and the engaging Seeker a soul-jazz excursion on a pop-like melody in which the leader veers into delightful, Errol Garneresque old-school swing.

These developments are profoundly antithetical to the dream of sadly civilized enlightenment evoked by Mr. Sondheim's songs.

So Bruns' book does at times evoke those flashes of "enlightenment" that almost always struck late at night in somebody's dorm room after too much red wine, or after one too many viewings of The Matrix.

Tradescant should be put in pride of place in the main foyer, an hors d'oeuvre to the whole museum, much as the British Museum's enlightenment library evokes the drawing room of a Georgian collector.

In this characteristic statement of the constitutional views of the American Enlightenment, Jefferson evoked both political realism and rights-based legal idealism.

The term "enlightenment" often evokes images of a guru on a mountain top or bald monks in monasteries.

It is this spirit that the museum has sought to evoke in its new permanent exhibition, "Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the 18th Century".

It is perhaps a sign of the general insignificance of the surviving guilds that they evoked surprisingly little serious criticism until the Enlightenment of the 18th century.

VENICE — "Illuminations," the title of the main exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale here, is meant to evoke the notion of artists as a source of enlightenment.

From Gray's point of view, Enlightenment figures like Kant and John Stuart Mill, who evoke better human possibilities, are purveying a consoling myth.