Sentence examples for soft enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Diderot, best known as the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, offered a skeptical, materialist vision of the world whose stark atheism and unapologetic carnality have been overshadowed by the "soft Enlightenment" of Voltaire, which merely swapped the God of tradition for a Deist "watchmaker".

In a series of accompanying photographs, light falls on their faces and shoulders in soft, mote-filled beams: enlightenment in a physical form that is suggestive of a kind of holiness.

Any enlightenment appreciated".

The Enlightenment had deceived him.

What is enlightenment?

What is the Enlightenment?

It's very Enlightenment.

Was this the Enlightenment?

My brief is Enlightenment.

But enlightenment approaches.

Enlightenment, revival, virtue.