Word: enlightenment
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...good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and [can] deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly...
...exasperation that Western converts often feel toward their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales. --By Paul Gray
Allan W. Shearer the course’s current head TF, acknowledges that “this is actually the first film class for many people,” but that Mitchell’s unique perspective has the potential to enlighten both newbies and buffs...
...inform her that it’s rather shoddy journalism to tell an interviewee what they can and can’t say. In its role as an educator, one would like to believe that the media would take more seriously the obligation to present facts that might enlighten the public—rather than perpetuate fallacies or a false picture of an issue for the sake of more sensational and soft stories. But—I know—I’m idealistic...
...thing about science, you cannot predict where you’re going to find the next major finding that will enlighten mankind,” said Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology emeritus Baruj Benacerraf. “So you must support science in general...you must keep an entirely open mind about things in general and not be totally guided by the inner calling of faith and religion...