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Example sentences for: enlightenment

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Its Song Dynasty-style grounds house a priceless white jade Buddha statue in the seated position of enlightenment, brought from Burma.
The more he equates his candidacy with goodness and enlightenment, and the more condescendingly he dismisses Gore ("Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works.
Computer technology discourages smoking, advances in interpersonal sensitivity discourage profanity or even loudness, enlightenment in personnel management discourages the proverbial fifth of cheap bourbon in the lower desk drawer.
Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence ), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Antoine Lavoisier and others, into something like the chemistry we were all taught in high school.
Designed after the temple at Bodh Gaya in India where Buddha reached enlightenment, this soaring spire boasts an image of Buddha on each one of its bricks.