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  • He had a particular expression which his face assumed when he understood but didn't think he should show it, a settled, enlightened look; its appearance now was the first decent thing I had seen in a long time.†   (source)
  • These men intended to take you to a school called the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.†   (source)
  • His was considered a modern, enlightened prison, despite its Victorian chill.†   (source)
  • Now that you've wrestled with three major religious traditions, apply your newly enlightened mind to Alaska's question.†   (source)
  • In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of it.†   (source)
  • I found nothing that further enlightened me about his inner life, nothing that might help me understand him after he was gone.†   (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)
  • The responses invariably came back and just as invariably failed to enlightened me one iota.†   (source)
  • A great deal of it comes from living in such an enlightened atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Good names tend to represent dignified and enlightened qualities.†   (source)
  • NW: You see, he woke one morning, the king, and proclaimed his plan to reshape the country—kicking and screaming, if need be—into a new and more enlightened nation.†   (source)
  • Such behavior, the journal said, "would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours."†   (source)
  • He understands everything, although he hasn't enlightened you.†   (source)
  • During his time there had been a rule of 'enlightened despotism,' similar to that in the reign of Louis XIV almost a hundred years earlier.†   (source)
  • I'm an enlightened modern man from the year 865 C.E.†   (source)
  • Below us were the more friendly, enlightened desert kingdoms of the world's coming natural-gas capital, Qatar; the oil-sodden emirate of Abu Dhabi; the gleaming modern high-rises of Dubai; and then, farther east, the craggy coastline of Oman.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you can eventually persuade him to take a more enlightened view.†   (source)
  • All men seek to be enlightened.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I said in an enlightened voice.†   (source)
  • However this whole thing ends, I think I've been enlightened just by crossing paths with some of you.†   (source)
  • I can only say now that in all honesty I fail to see how I might reasonably have prevented the situation developing as it did; for by the stage I had become aware of what was occurring, things had gone so far I could not have enlightened these people without creating much embarrassment all round.†   (source)
  • Jealousy,she enlightened me.†   (source)
  • But at home, Edna's enlightened upbringing continued.†   (source)
  • And as she would watch the disjointed mysteries of life connect up in her daughter's mind and hear her breathe out with enlightened wonder—"A real baby, Mother?"†   (source)
  • Of course," Jace said, in the tone of someone who's just been enlightened by an interesting, if not particularly necessary, scientific fact.†   (source)
  • And the more enlightened he becomes, the more open grows the space for Cotter's anger.†   (source)
  • The enlightened Ape — Man, I mean — is in the right.†   (source)
  • Enlightened.†   (source)
  • She has to report it to the principal, but not to worry, this is an enlightened school.†   (source)
  • It was why a country as enlightened as the United States could still have a death penalty statute in place: it was just too frightening to think about what justice—or lack of it—would prevail if we didn't.†   (source)
  • I was further intrigued, but not enlightened.†   (source)
  • There was a moment of captured, enlightened recognition.†   (source)
  • Her education had taught her how to be an enlightened mother and wife, able to contribute to the civilization—or in her case, the civilizing—of her community.†   (source)
  • The world was growing more enlightened, Adams conceded.†   (source)
  • But it is equally clear—at least to me—that he did not drink because of The Photograph, because he was an Indian, or because enlightened white society had failed to save him from himself.†   (source)
  • It might have been 2058, an enlightened time of technological advancement, but marriage was still marriage.†   (source)
  • To realize fully this lack of division is to become enlightened.†   (source)
  • We follow a policy of enlightened humanitarianism; all our employees are automatically insured.†   (source)
  • The dwarf was not enlightened.†   (source)
  • Reverend Mokitimi, who was also Sotho-speaking, was much admired among students as a modern and enlightened fellow who understood our complaints.†   (source)
  • Contrary to the most enlightened skeptics, there might be a God, after all.†   (source)
  • An enlightened-sounding position, completely at odds with the fact that discrimination against Hutus — and indeed against many Tutsis — was the rule, in education and business, in the army and the institutions of government.†   (source)
  • No enlightened person would ever ask it.†   (source)
  • In the course of history, the ideals pertaining to human beings' behavior toward each other and pertaining to the preferred organization of their communities have been espoused and taught by enlightened individuals.†   (source)
  • His fantasy was that in the mad spiral and plummet of modern life, these blue-robed faithful had learned a truth and achieved an enlightened state that gave meaning to existence.†   (source)
  • "Ah," he said as if enlightened.†   (source)
  • First, enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.†   (source)
  • The Glatun government was an enlightened plutodemocracy.†   (source)
  • And while we understand that art and literature mean to do this to us, is there not a serious, thinking person who sometimes wishes the questions would be answered directly by a reading, with clarity and resolve, so that he might move steadily onward, to be further enlightened, improved?†   (source)
  • But Lawrence, he had been enlightened.†   (source)
  • What a fine persecution-to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.... (Pause.)†   (source)
  • Your son, the enlightened realist.†   (source)
  • In a more enlightened day when witches and familiars were better understood, George would have found his, or rather her, end in a bonfire, because if ever there was a familiar, an envoy of the devil, a consorter with evil spirits, George is it.†   (source)
  • Then, too, New Orleans is more enlightened than anyplace else in the state—or in the South.†   (source)
  • Sophie's sudden news that soon we would be enlightened was like receiving an electric jolt.†   (source)
  • It is incontrovertible as geometry in every enlightened community of minds!†   (source)
  • The Buddha himself, the enlightened one, was also in the habit of taking this walk to beg in the morning.†   (source)
  • Grandma did not hear well and carried a black ear trumpet which was sticky and sour on the end that she put in her ear; but try as he would they talked so quietly that he could hear very little, and none of it enlightened him.†   (source)
  • In private life, as in industry, we expect the individual to advance his own enlightened self-interest—within the limitations of the law—in order to achieve over-all progress.†   (source)
  • the enlightened friends to liberty
  • I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,   (source)
  • It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,   (source)
  • It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is.   (source)
    enlightened = knowledgeable and free of false beliefs based on superstition
  • He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quite a young man, and distinguished among the Miuesovs as a man of enlightened ideas and of European culture, who had been in the capitals and abroad.   (source)
  • The word Illuminati means 'the enlightened ones.'†   (source)
  • It's a very common metaphor—a mystical portal through which one must travel to become enlightened.†   (source)
  • Father Christopher turned out to be a kind and enlightened man with a wonderful sense of humor.†   (source)
  • Man's insecurity and need for an enlightened soul assuring him everything is part of a master plan.†   (source)
  • Look to the stories of those enlightened minds who performed miraculous feats.†   (source)
  • Welcome to the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened!†   (source)
  • Enlightened men do not resort to blackmail to further their causes.†   (source)
  • After all, you've been talking about secret wisdom protected by an enlightened few.†   (source)
  • The Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened was unlike other schools.†   (source)
  • But when science heralds its Godless pursuits as the enlightened path?†   (source)
  • As you know, Professor, the Ancient Mysteries are reserved only for the truly enlightened.†   (source)
  • High enough that an enlightened man can reach down and touch it.†   (source)
  • So you're saying the U.S. Great Seal is a call for enlightened, all-seeing change?†   (source)
  • But the church is not the only enlightened soul on the planet!†   (source)
  • Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought.†   (source)
  • Are you surprised you are the target of enlightened men from around the globe?†   (source)
  • CERN is a haven for the most enlightened people on earth.†   (source)
  • They founded the world's first scientific think tank, calling themselves 'the enlightened ones.'†   (source)
  • As the soul becomes enlightened ....it takes the beautiful shape of the dove.†   (source)
  • It was purely a self-enlightened request.†   (source)
  • All who are enlightened know that,' said the Tarkaan.†   (source)
  • Hisfather, King Sobhuza, was an enlightened traditional leader and also a member of the ANC.†   (source)
  • When I agreed with him, I was brilliant and enlightened.†   (source)
  • Well, what is it that enlightened people do with their lives?†   (source)
  • They will usually be enlightened and respectable citizens.†   (source)
  • Clearly, I was not going to be enlightened.†   (source)
  • What more could an enlightened and reasonable people want?†   (source)
  • We need a great saint—some enlightened common sense.†   (source)
  • I think I'm what you might call an enlightened Southerner mistaking an insult for a compliment.†   (source)
  • Enlightened One, I have listened to your teachings, and I have listened well.†   (source)
  • For a long while, the Enlightened One walked the woods, meditating.†   (source)
  • I have been called Buddha, and Tathagatha, and the Enlightened One, and many other things.†   (source)
  • I know that you are not an Enlightened One.†   (source)
  • But the Enlightened One did not go to the river.†   (source)
  • Great-Souled Sam, the Enlightened One, entered and seated himself before them.†   (source)
  • But the Enlightened One did not go to the mountain.†   (source)
  • She had gone away a little reassured by the doctor's conviction that Brett would not go sleepwalking out a window or down the middle of a highway, but without being much enlightened.†   (source)
  • It could only be a question of time before irrationalism and ignorance would give way to an 'enlightened' humanity.†   (source)
  • Despite the clarity of Saunière's final revelation, Langdon had been left feeling more off balance than enlightened.†   (source)
  • Yet even in this enlightened age, when so many parents are aware of the psychological damage they may do to their children, surely there was one parent somewhere in Castle Rock — or perhaps one grandmother — who quieted the kids by telling them that Frank Dodd would get them if they didn't watch out, if they weren't good.†   (source)
  • Because there are some things you have to do even if you are an enlightened liberal cop who knows all about sensitivity and everything!†   (source)
  • Although Langdon suspected this was more of a cartoonist's sophomoric prank than any kind of enlightened allusion to pagan human sexuality, he had learned not to underestimate Disney's grasp of symbolism.†   (source)
  • With thirty Buddhas watching me, I was suddenly enlightened as to why these people were so generous with the baby-sitter.†   (source)
  • These people had clearly not researched the going rate for baby-sitters, and if the twenty-foot Buddha had not enlightened them, I was not about to start.†   (source)
  • An enlightened soul.†   (source)
  • Within minutes they would be admitted to the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, and they were apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Here at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened," Mr. Curtain boomed, writing the name out on a chalkboard and circling all the capital letters, "we show our students how to L.I.V.E!"†   (source)
  • Even though Peter could not see the tiny aluminum tip at the top, he knew it was there, man's enlightened mind straining toward heaven.†   (source)
  • Printed upon the banner, in letters large enough to be read from the mainland, was the word LIVE — an acronym, obviously, for the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.†   (source)
  • Symbolically speaking, one could claim that anything within reach of an enlightened man ....is within reach of God.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of all the lore about needing to protect the ancient wisdom from the unworthy and share it only with the enlightened.†   (source)
  • The Word, like the Mysteries themselves, promised to unveil its hidden power only to those enlightened enough to decrypt it.†   (source)
  • The enlightened sages who understood the true power of this wisdom learned to fear its awesome potential.†   (source)
  • History had blessed mankind with the wisest of teachers, profoundly enlightened souls whose understanding of the spiritual and mental mysteries exceeded all understanding.†   (source)
  • The enlightened Adepts who possessed this knowledge vowed to keep it veiled from the masses because it was considered far too potent and dangerous for the uninitiated.†   (source)
  • Okay, then maybe using 'Santi' was to make the clue more obscure, so only very enlightened men would recognize the reference to Raphael.†   (source)
  • This concealed "college" quickly became a brain trust of the world's most enlightened minds—those of Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and even Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • A call for enlightened change.†   (source)
  • Peter sensed Langdon was beginning to see this creation for what it truly was ....a silent reminder of ancient wisdom ....an icon of enlightened man at the heart of a great nation.†   (source)
  • Some of Italy's most enlightened men-physicists, mathematicians, astronomers-began meeting secretly to share their concerns about the church's inaccurate teachings.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.†   (source)
  • Similarly, early alchemists had toiled in vain to transform lead into gold, never realizing that lead-to-gold was nothing but a metaphor for tapping into true human potential—that of taking a dull, ignorant mind and transforming it into a bright, enlightened one.†   (source)
  • The legend, as Langdon recalled, never explained exactly what was supposed to be inside the Masonic Pyramid—whether it was ancient texts, occult writings, scientific revelations, or something far more mysterious—but the legend did say that the precious information inside was ingeniously encoded ....and understandable only to the most enlightened souls.†   (source)
  • Enlightened school?†   (source)
  • I am pleased to have enlightened you.†   (source)
  • More than five Tisrocs in Tashbaan have died before their time because their eldest sons, enlightened princes, grew tired of waiting for their throne.†   (source)
  • It was the view expressed in a letter in the New York Journal signed "A Republican": Mankind is now enlightened.†   (source)
  • We want to be enlightened," she said.†   (source)
  • "Know, O enlightened Prince," said the Grand Vizier, "that until the year in which your exalted father began his salutary and unending reign, the land of Narnia was covered with ice and snow and was moreover ruled by a most powerful enchantress."†   (source)
  • Merit must be conspicuously great when it can thus call forth the voluntary honors of a free and enlightened people [wrote the Massachusetts Centinel].†   (source)
  • 'And it would be better, wouldn't it,' said Ginger, 'to let some of the more enlightened Narnians into our counsels: one by one as we find them apt.†   (source)
  • Any enlightened person knows that man is made by the material factors of his background, and that a man's mind is shaped by his tools of production.†   (source)
  • You're enlightened now.†   (source)
  • Our strategy was not to argue with him in the field, but to contest the charges in court where we would have a chance to make our case before slightly more enlightened officers.†   (source)
  • Enlightened men would respect laws.†   (source)
  • An enlightened citizenry should abandon the superstitious worship of logic and the outmoded reliance on reason.†   (source)
  • There was something nice about picturing him picking the songs for me, organizing them so carefully, hoping I'd be enlightened.†   (source)
  • The Tisroc was apparently sunk in thought, but when, after a long pause, he noticed what was happening, he said tranquilly: "My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects.†   (source)
  • Who knew she was an Ebb Tide fan, that she had imports, that she was possibly, in Owen's view anyway, enlightened?†   (source)
  • "Inequalities still exist among us," the newspapers were saying, "and cheat us of the benefits of our enlightened age."†   (source)
  • Enlightened citizens would know the difference between legal authority and illegal usurpation of authority.†   (source)
  • "Enlightened insomniacs," I said.†   (source)
  • It may have more enlightened, virtuous representatives who are above local prejudices and schemes of injustice.†   (source)
  • "In this enlightened age," Eugene Lawson had said in a radio broadcast, "we have come, at last, to realize that each one of us is his brother's keeper."†   (source)
  • Nobody can deny it, Jim, that Wesley feels a high regard for you as an enlightened businessman, a valuable adviser and one of his closest personal friends.†   (source)
  • It is naïve to say that enlightened statesmen will adjust the different interests, making them all subservient to the public good.†   (source)
  • They're enlightened.†   (source)
  • It's almost enlightened.†   (source)
  • In line with the enlightened policy of Senior Ramirez, the new Head of the Chilean State-who came to power on the moral slogan that man is his brother's keeper-the legislature was to nationalize the Chilean properties of d'Anconia Copper, thus opening the way for the People's State of Argentina to nationalize the rest of the d'Anconia properties the world over.†   (source)
  • Inquisitive, enlightened statesmen are best qualified to make a judicious selection of the proper objects of taxation.†   (source)
  • He had lost his property-it was said-when Chile, becoming a People's State, had nationalized all properties, except those belonging to citizens of backward, non-People's countries, such as Argentina; but he had adopted an enlightened attitude and had joined the new regime, placing himself in the service of his country.†   (source)
  • Against the force of the people's representatives, the only way the Senate will be able to maintain even its constitutional authority will be enlightened policy and an attachment to the public good.†   (source)
  • Although I did not deal with Bilbo at any great length, I learned from my ancillary research (and rather to my surprise, given the truly despicable public image he projected in the 1940s) that he, too, fitted into this classically paradoxical mold; Bilbo in much the same way as the others had commenced with enlightened principles, and indeed like the others, I discovered, had as a public servant produced reforms and contributions that had greatly advanced the common weal.†   (source)
  • The teachings of the enlightened Buddha contain much, it teaches many to live righteously, to avoid evil.†   (source)
  • He claimed no intricate or extensive medical knowledge, and had no use for the lay habit of venturing amateur diagnoses of illness; his training had, however, made him more than ordinarily enlightened about the chemical vagaries and ailments of the human body, and so the moment he first laid eyes on Sophie ("this sweetie," he murmured with enormous concern and gentleness, twisting the lock of her hair) he guessed, with dead accuracy as it turned out, that her ravaged appearance was the result of a deficiency anemia.†   (source)
  • There was a brief lull as the Enlightened One and his monks arrived, their yellow robes near-orange in the flamelight.†   (source)
  • In the days that followed, as the festival wore on, the Enlightened One preached to the crowds who passed through the purple grove.†   (source)
  • And each time he taught, the man Rild sat nearby, wearing his black garments and leather harness, his strange dark eyes ever upon the Enlightened One.†   (source)
  • But forget not the blessing of the Enlightened One, whom my second cousin Vasu sheltered in his purple grove.†   (source)
  • The Enlightened One stood upon the road before the grove, his monks moving about him, facing in the direction of the hills of rock.†   (source)
  • "Are you certain," asked the Enlightened One, "that you do not seek merely to punish yourself for what has been weighing upon your conscience as a failure, or a sin?"†   (source)
  • But during those two days, anyone who passed by the pavilion might have heard the voice of the Enlightened One droning on and on, as though he addressed his sleeping charge.†   (source)
  • When they came again to the purple grove, the Enlightened One instructed his monks to take rest, and he moved off in the direction of a small pavilion located deep within the wood.†   (source)
  • It had been the property of the merchant Vasu until his conversion, at which time he had presented it to the teacher variously known as Mahasamatman, Tathagatha and the Enlightened One.†   (source)
  • Before daybreak, however, one of the wearers of the saffron robe arrived from the direction of town, made his way through the crowd and spoke into the ear of the Enlightened One.†   (source)
  • A monk seated nearby noted that he was tapping his fingers upon the ground, and he decided that the Enlightened One must be keeping time with the drumbeats, for it was common knowledge that he was above such things as impatience.†   (source)
  • Now, though, with the passage of countless travelers, caused by the presence of the Enlightened One, who taught the Way of the Eightfold Path, the Festival of Alundil attracted so many pilgrims that local accommodations were filled to overflowing.†   (source)
  • A lamp enlightened the platform but the faces of the boys were in shadow.†   (source)
  • This is a regular procedure provided for by the enlightened and progressive laws of our state.†   (source)
  • We are living now in more enlightened days, free from the old caste-prejudice.†   (source)
  • But his fellow-pupils soon enlightened him.†   (source)
  • "Like dot" Lefty, whose turn it was, enlightened him with a billow of smoke.†   (source)
  • It still c'n go," Yussie gravely enlightened him.†   (source)
  • This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.†   (source)
  • Unworthy of an enlightened person.†   (source)
  • Much of it is alien to our more enlightened spirits, and yet it gives us a glimpse of that radiant eternal light which glows, a small still flame, in the dark core of human suffering.†   (source)
  • Why did not Lancelot make love to Guenever, or run away with his hero's wife altogether, as any enlightened man would do today?†   (source)
  • "It's nobody's," he enlightened her.†   (source)
  • i. e., an Enlightened One, a Buddha.†   (source)
  • Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?†   (source)
  • Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand (the Buddhism of the north), regards the Enlightened One as a world savior, an incarnation of the universal principle of enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Then for seven days, Gautama—now the Buddha, the Enlightened—sat motionless in bliss; for seven days he stood apart and regarded the spot on which he had received enlightenment; for seven days he paced between the place of the sitting and the place of the standing; for seven days he abode in a pavilion furnished by the gods and reviewed the whole doctrine of causality and release; for seven days he sa†   (source)
  • [enlightened] Is that what you meant, Mr Ramsden†   (source)
  • A glance at the window enlightened me further, and the striking of a match completed the picture.†   (source)
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