enlightened

Funny side characters—the enlightened mom who looks down on people who use diapers; the chatty wife who will not stop talking about her husband’s vasectomy—fill out a believable cast.

More likely, they aim to attract tourists, spur economic growth, and burnish their reputations as fun and enlightened places.

For a time, Byerley belonged to a social-media movement that has given antidepressants a makeover—from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory for enlightened and empowered young women.

In Miranda’s “Hamilton” audiences saw what America could be if it were truly an egalitarian, enlightened society unhindered by the ugly racism that scarred it from the very start.

As is the case in “Downton,” the rich protagonists and their servants in “The Gilded Age” are portrayed as one grand family, and people like Agnes and Ada as racially enlightened.