enlightened
Example Sentences
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“I believe that it enlightened, lit a fire under the guys,” DiGiorgio said, “to be a little excited for this week.”
From Los Angeles Times
For 18th-century enlightened reformers, ethnic diversity and multiculturalism weren’t good things.
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
Condorcet had unshakeable faith in enlightened experts to manage French citizens as well as the fates of those outside Europe who were, as he put it, “vegetating in the infant condition of early times.”
Self help gurus and HR departments teach us that finding your “whole self” is an enlightened goal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
