Sentence examples for instead of enlightening from inspiring English sources

Instead of a "media industry," I see news that actually misinforms instead of enlightening — rusting the beams of democracy — and entertainment that merely titillates.

Instead of enlightening and advising its friends on the costs and consequences of their positions, Russia -- with its silent partner, China -- pursued what they found to be in their interests, all this while effectively misleading the Iraqi president into sacrificing Iraq on the altar of deception, arrogant defiance and sheer miscalculation.

I felt at times that the more he wrote the more he obfuscated instead of enlightened.

Instead of enlightened, you're scatterbrained.

Instead of being enlightening, the effect of this is generally dispiriting.

So now instead of being enlightened, we are tense and scared, or willfully ignorant.

It's kind of enlightening.

It was an impressive conveyor belt of enlightening scientific connections.

Instead of seeking to enlighten the audience, they set out to second-guess them.In his speech Blair admitted that a vast amount of the work of his government - perhaps too much - had been devoted to handling the media.

Holland's industry is a model of enlightened co-operation.

Anna Holmes on Scout as a model of enlightened, audacious girlhood.