What is "enlightening"

Usage examples of "enlightening".

There was in my mind a curtain dividing truth from error, and reason alone could draw it aside, but that poor reason--I had been taught to fear it, to repulse it, as if its bright flame would have devoured, instead of enlightening me.

She stared and waited and it was clear that she had no intention of enlightening me as to what a Feoffee actually was.

She was turning away, and Bernard, as he raised his hat and separated from her, felt that it was rather cruel that he should let her go without enlightening her ignorance.

Talk show diva Oprah Winfrey tells an enlightening story about going to a hypnotist for weight loss.

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, was a wandering Hasid who gave enlightening discourses on meditation anywhere he happened to find himself.

John Hick, in an enlightening discussion of the problem of theodicy, has used this famous phrase of Keats to clarify the agonizing issue posed by the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a God of love.

Instead of considering these relationships ungodly, I thought they were enlightening, although I considered the titles to be foolish.

Perhaps more enlightening reading was the thousand-plus pages Liysa herself had written: short stories, letters, manuscripts, and screenplays, provided to Birmingham through discovery by the State.

Ryan was thinking how enlightening it would be to actually speak with Senator Greenlow, to see the big blowhard and Chrissy together.

There was in my mind a curtain dividing truth from error, and reason alone could draw it aside, but that poor reason--I had been taught to fear it, to repulse it, as if its bright flame would have devoured, instead of enlightening me.

Enlightening as the military talk had been, Pol had found the assumption of formal roles even more educational.

Thus in Iceland, and in other Scandinavian lands, at every Allthing, or national folkmote, a lovsogmathr used to recite the whole law from memory for the enlightening of the assembly.

And in view of the history of all the assassinations and mass murders in the US, it was extraordinarily enlightening that all the thousands of whites caught in a deadly gunfire from an unseen assassin, white police and white civilians alike, would automatically agree that he must be black.

It sits in judgment not only on its own townsmen but on the rest of the world -- enlightening, criticising, ostracizing a heedless universe -- and non-conformity to Wentworth standards involves obliteration from Wentworth's consciousness.

Say that during one of his entertaining although not terribly enlightening press conferences, someone brings up my name, which is inevitable now.