Sentence examples for make enlightening from inspiring English sources

Such books make enlightening historical foot notes, even if they themselves are occasionally in need of a footnote or two.

"We make enlightening, engaging and entertaining shows that can make a difference," he wrote.

There is power in knowing and when you know you make enlightened decisions.

And once he is sent to a Jamaican prison, unrepentant, he looks "hopefully, even eagerly, ahead to an ecstatic boredom, a concentration of misery made enlightening as the resolving experience of his life".

But the size of the gulf between rich and poor - revealed today by Education Guardian – makes for enlightening reading.

You're a religion if you do something as weird as when the Buddhist monks scrutinize two-year-olds to find the reincarnation of the dude who just died, and then choose one of the toddlers as the sacred Lama: "His poop is royal!" Sorry, but thinking you can look at a babbling, barely-housebroken, uneducated being and say, "That's our leader" doesn't make you enlightened.

To the Enlightenment's challenge to traditional morality and values they brought their own peculiar blend of curiosity, optimism and pragmatism, for, as enlightened English people made clear, new perspectives of man and society that did not in some way improve the quality of everyday life were not of much interest.

For others, though, the way that the show filters the concerns of the late eighteenth century through the lens of the twenty-first could make for enlightening listening.

But whatever the form that the subsequent emotional distress takes, alas, just evoking it in others does not make for enlightening or readable books.

Dr Shuruq Naguib, Lancaster University Islamic studies lecturer, accepted an afterlife because doing so is one of the pillars of Islam and she is a Muslim and so therefore she believed in it, a circuitous position I imagined unlikely to make for enlightening listening.

It was a reminder that, no matter how many strides have been made to enlighten attitudes in recent years, some people still see nothing wrong with making someone's life a misery with their bile.