Sentence examples for much enlightenment from inspiring English sources

The city's spires, houses and towers are spread far below us like so much Enlightenment Lego.

Then again, the rich, the powerful and the politically connected need as much enlightenment as anybody else, maybe more.

If the latter understanding of analysis is required, as in Moore's classic example of the analysis of brother as male sibling, not much enlightenment is likely to ensue.

Unsure I can take this much enlightenment on a Monday afternoon, I stick with a ceviche, a traditional mix of raw fish marinated in citrus.

But theater takes place live, in real time, and as Ms. Taylor's drama whirls by in a confusing blur, it's difficult to salvage much enlightenment — or entertainment — from its obscurities.

"It is worrisome just how much enlightenment the electorate needs".Indeed, the election was a clash between appeals to good governance on the one hand and the lure of old-school clientelism and populism on the other.

"I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy," Wales told me.

The high optimism that marked much of Enlightenment thought, however, survived as one of the movement's most-enduring legacies: the belief that human history is a record of general progress.

The much vaunted Enlightenment humanism, based as it was on the ideal of pure rationality was only a sham.

It is also possible that the critical use of democratic concepts may require reconceptualizing the democratic theory that has informed much of Enlightenment criticism in European societies.

He was calm, quiet, and wise, but he didn't shout or hit people and didn't seem to talk much about enlightenment (though if you listened closely you could see he was always talking about it).