Sentence examples for of being enlightened from inspiring English sources

In The Art of Fear, the sixth instalment of The Rest is Noise, we look at music composed in the dark times of the 1930s and 40s under the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, both of whom had pretensions of being enlightened patrons of the arts.

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

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

One example: Our colleges and universities are supposed to be enlightened centers of learning.

The efficacy of the proposed model of ECT was enlightened by comparing with ADC based approach.

"My view is simply that the modus operandi of Russia is enlightened conservatism," meaning hierarchical, religion-soaked, tradition-loving.

The New Yorker, December 3 , 1949P. 27 Passengers on the 6 P.M. N.Y.-Boston train, which remained stationary at Grand Central after the scheduled time of departure, were enlightened when a loudspeaker boomed at 6 10.

By Margaretta Byers and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 3 , 1949P. 27 Passengers on the 6 P.M. N.Y.-Boston train, which remained stationary at Grand Central after the scheduled time of departure, were enlightened when a loudspeaker boomed at 6 10.

Milinda is identical to the Greek Menander, the name of a Bactrian Indo-Greek king (c. 140 110 bc) who was skeptical of the verities of Buddhism and was enlightened by the teaching of an elder, Nāgasena.

The potential of this technique for the synthesis of new types of porous thermosets is enlightened by the comparison with the current state of the art on technologies for the preparation of macroporous polymeric materials.

The parameter extraction procedure of the metamaterial property of the CSRRs is enlightened in detail, by which the negative permittivity existence and the new resonance frequencies are verified.