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
“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 • Nov. 28, 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
As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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