enlightened

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You might be tempted, with every faraway look in Christian Petzold’s subtly moving “Miroirs No. 3,” to hope for that soothing, enlightened release so often served as catharsis in tales of loss and healing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Many of the problems we face are self-inflicted, and they are fixable with proper allocation of resources, and enlightened and accountable leadership.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

The revolutionary leaders’ idea of a modern nation—shared by enlightened British, French and German 18th-century reformers—was one composed of similar people, not broken up by differences of language, ethnicity, religion, tribe or local customs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

If Spain in the 1930s may look racially homogeneous from our supposedly enlightened point of view, Kaufman indirectly makes the point that such definitions are always subjective, and subject to historical revision.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

She had received two full half-hour lessons in driving from the man who delivered the car, and in that enlightened year of 1925 this was considered quite sufficient.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl