enlightenment

Example Sentences

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The blue trail of the title is how people describe getting snail-stoned to find the path to enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But if history is any guide, it means a new enlightenment is overdue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 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

The “Monkey King” premiere took place the day after the final performance of Matthew Ozawa’s thoughtful new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” a very different tale about ignorance and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Upon hearing this, Banzan realized that there is no best and no worst, that those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is, and poof, he reached enlightenment.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green