Word: benightedness
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"In benighted lands, from England to Indonesia, women are still deluded into thinking that they ought to make life a little pleasanter and easier for their breadwinners; only here is the Ideal Male one who dedicates his life to the pampering of women. In India, for example, as recently as...
As Darrow, Paul Muni snorts and paces and glares, lifts indignant agnostic eyes toward heaven, heaps anti-Biblical fire and brimstone on the pious, and slowly reduces Bryan to a mental pulp and physical exhaustion. A wonderful example of the high hamming that is equally the forte of skilled actors...
The fear of the ascendancy of a Negro to our presidency, as expressed by the benighted and misled Givhan, is reaching into the gutter for an excuse to justify Givhan's intolerance toward his fellow Americans . . .
The gradual liberalizing of the regulations in the College followed soon after similar changes in Commonwealth law. In 1792, John Gardner came to the defense of the drama in a speech in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in which he said that "the illiberal, unmanly, and despotical act which now...
Besides the daily copies, the CRIMSON has dispatched four of its top photoengravers and line typist J. Lewis Erlandson to aid those papers hit by the strike. Erlandson, shown at the right, before his departure, said, "We have a duty to these benighted people. We will discharge it."