Word: benightedness
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'poor benighted heathen,
At dawn, on the edge of a jungle, he cut off his long hair with a sword, exchanged clothes with a wretched mendicant, and betook himself with five disciples to a gorge in the Vindhya Mountains, where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like...
The Honorable Guy C. Hardy of Colorado admits that he was traveling in Europe for pleasure, and not to save the souls and industries of the benighted inhabitants. He has no formulae to set right all the wrongs of the Old World. He did not speak of the funny little...
Heywood Broun-"It does not seem to me that the author has succeeded in his effort to present a benighted people wholly from their own point of view. ... It is skilful eavesdropping, but it falls short of capture."
There are a few specimens of the type "realism" in the collection which provoke the question, Is not the thesis of realism, a valuable and truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these...