enlightenment

Example Sentences

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Aleys, at first, seems to be on a path toward personal enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

But “The Singing Word: 168 Years of Poetry from The Atlantic” is lovely, both as a collection and in the pleasure and enlightenment readers will derive from individual poems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

That was not, in Hobsbawm’s analysis, a straight-up clash between good and evil or enlightenment and darkness; he was a non-dogmatic Marxist, always attuned to the nuanced dialectical relationship between historical forces.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Instead, they have a bundle of energy, and that bundle of energy is transitory, migrating from one body to another, reincarnating endlessly until it eventually reaches enlightenment.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green