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  • "O enlightened Vizier," said the Tisroc, "bestow your wisdom upon us concerning this strange proposal."  (source)
  • The wandering monks of the Enlightened One were visiting at the time.  (source)
    Enlightened = with an advanced spiritual state that includes better understanding
  • And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations-not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.  (source)
    enlightened = having important knowledge and priorities
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  • It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is.  (source)
    enlightened = knowledgeable and free of false beliefs based on superstition
  • Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.  (source)
    Enlightened = having important knowledge and understanding
  • Instead of Zia's Islamization he began what he called enlightened moderation.†  (source)
  • Father Christopher turned out to be a kind and enlightened man with a wonderful sense of humor.†  (source)
  • In one, our most enlightened Tsar studies his oldest son with suspicion, on the verge of condemning him to death; while in the other, unflinching Ivan cradles the body of his eldest, having already exacted the supreme measure with a swing of the scepter to the head.†  (source)
  • He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.†  (source)
  • First of all I will tell you something about this beautiful, enlightened planet of Camazotz.†  (source)
  • These men intended to take you to a school called the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.†  (source)
  • Perhaps you can eventually persuade him to take a more enlightened view.†  (source)
  • Andy had been so mistreated at our (supposedly) enlightened and progressive school that public school, in his view, was on a par with the prison system.†  (source)
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