Sentences with 'enlightened'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enlightened and other words derived from it.
• « The Abbasid rulers represented, in short, a kind of enlightened despotism that was far ahead of Byzantium or the Latin kingdoms of Europe in terms of cosmopolitanism. »
• « Many Enlightenment thinkers thus looked to Britain, since 1689 ruled by a monarch who agreed with its written constitution and worked closely with an elected parliament, as the best existing model of enlightened government. »
• « Rousseau claimed, in a highly inaccurate and anachronistic argument, that ancient Sparta was an excellent model of a truly enlightened and moral polity. »
• « In the Paris of the future, an enlightened king oversees a rationally governed society and extends personal audiences to his subjects. »