Example sentences for: enlightened

How can you use “enlightened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The protesters contrast global capitalism with enlightened national laws.

  • The film's portrayal of Flynt as a quasifeminist enlightened male depends in large part on its portrait of Althea, played by Courtney Love.

  • One wall is devoted to Bad Government, a gloomy portrait of Tyranny, badly damaged, and the other two to Siena’s own enlightened Good Government, full of fascinating detail of town life — roof-builders, shoe shop, school, outdoor tavern, ladies dancing in the street — and hunters riding out to the surrounding countryside.

  • Or as an enlightened Neanderthal, profitably pretending to evolve?

  • We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.


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