How To Use Benighted In A Sentence
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Besides suffering through a variety of severe but all-too-common mine accidents in its benighted history, the coalfields of Vancouver Island have also played host to some of B.C.'s most famous activists.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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But isn't it surprising there have not been more deaths in that benighted land where people seem to have nothing else to do but take potshots at our boys.
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Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure.
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
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Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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Father, said Jack, can you lodge a benighted traveller that has lost his way?"
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Seen in this benighted context, the election is as inexplicable as it is marvellous.
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When Mr. Heath, the benighted and storm-delayed traveler, threw back his dripping coat, and seated himself at the invitation of his host, before the blazing fire, Mr. Abbot thought that he had seldom seen a more attractive young man.
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But is it right that our appetites wreak havoc on a country most of us have never been, and where grinding poverty of a kind that's been eliminated in even the most benighted, neglected corners of our own country is as common as it is confining?
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this benighted country
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The benighted peoples of this area
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We poor benighted left-handers, however, require tender, therapeutic care to deal with our differentness.
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She warn't ever the same, after that; she never complained, but she kind of pined away and did not live long. hat was bugging Mark Twain in 1876, to make him think up the benighted village of Deer Lick?
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
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Now what was meant, of course, in fairness to the benighted author, is that educated people are statistically disproportionately liberal.
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And viciously contemning the Church more often than not entails a disdainful sidelong glance at the benighted faithful who persist in allegiance to her.
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The British politicians who devised the policy of transportation believed they had the monopoly of rational daylight, and thought of Australia as a benighted, morally murky place.
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These are numbers that would have done honor to the state in its darkest, most benighted hour.
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A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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How I hate born-again neopagan politically-correct moral relativism ... but I do love the benighted sinners who practice this particular form of synthetic spiritualism.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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Yet I find little to criticize here, because he does so clearly not in the benighted belief that we have ever really been free of such a pattern but in the hope that we might one day be.
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A pair of climbers were benighted in a storm at the top of Royal Arches without overnight gear.
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Why had he sailed his boat to this benighted place, I asked.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a benighted place.
Times, Sunday Times
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St. Boniface asked for the help of the Wimborne sisterhood to carry on his missionary labours among the benighted tribes of Germany, and several establishments in the marshes and woodlands along the shore of the Baltic Sea were the daughter houses of this mid-Wessex abbey.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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It is a sophisticated political response to a techno-scientific culture he viewed as primitive, destructive, benighted.
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benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
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April 14th, 2006 at 5:37 pm mfi: ‘OK I’m only a benighted bogtrotter’
Firedoglake » Iran: Calculated Madness and Common Sense
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A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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As he grew older, this cussedness became more pronounced, until his hatred of benighted autocratic states led him in the eyes of many to betray his left-wing views altogether.
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The forest was also frequented by outlaws, and was a place of great danger to the benighted traveller.
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Since the late nineteenth century, travelers, local colorists, reformers, and even missionaries described the area as an isolated, benighted place populated by a culturally backward people.
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This country has always abandoned its benighted poor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.
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An 'now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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However, to completely reject entire duchies of the science fiction empire as the Mundanists do ... it is that sort of benighted myopia that I reject.
Do you like it hard?
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While the revival of form and narrative among young literary poets could be dismissed by critical tastemakers as benighted antiquarianism and intellectual pretension," Gioia writes, "its universal adoption as the prosody-of-choice by disenfranchised urban blacks. . .is impossible to dismiss in such simplistic ideological terms.
Is Rap Poetry?
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He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until those central elements of decency and prosperity exist, our nation should help shelter political refugees from this benighted place.
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The people of Florence are far from considering themselves ignorant and benighted, and yet Brother Savonarola succeeded in persuading them that he held converse with God.
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In answering this question, Smyth seemed unable to go beyond a comforting but unchallenging look-how-far-we've-come-from-those-benighted-days attitude.
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Oh, the queer sense of the good old Capri of artistic legend, of which the name itself was, in the more benighted years -- years of the contadina and the pifferaro -- a bright evocation!
Italian Hours
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Master Milchku, queerest man in the benighted queendom, and, adcraft aidant, how he found the kids.
Finnegans Wake
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All they could do was build the best possible shelters for themselves, before the rainy season began, while he did his best to ensure their survival and eventual escape from this benighted place.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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These benighted souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their ‘sanity’ appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac revelers sweeps past them p.
World Wide Mind
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He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
English literary criticism
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In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence among groups in the Central Highlands for its implied association with a ‘primitive’, benighted phase of history.
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That would pretty much set the stage for a generations-long clash of civilizations, with my beloved, sometimes benighted country as the aggressor.
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It's a primitive, benighted method of ordering life that is based mostly on coercion and the world would be much better off if all its forms were banned forever.
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All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
Little Dorrit
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He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
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It's a promising thought, but to place this book in the rubric of self-help would be to mistake Kahneman-who lived for several years in Nazi-occupied France-for a benighted optimist.
Slate Articles
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Users of Wikipedia do get to recognise which parts are shaky, but the unwise may suddenly stumble into benighted stretches, like some crinkum-crankum byway in old London, where footpads lurked and communicable diseases were offered at low prices.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It would certainly confirm the country's international reputation as a backward and benighted land.
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Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
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He goes so far as to use the term ‘invincible ignorance,’ which implies that there's no point in arguing with such benighted folk, since their ignorance is invincible.
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I am benighted, bewildered, taken with art-magic, transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, not myself nor yet another, but, as they say in Mississippi, 'a sort of betweenity. '
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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Because we are foolish and benighted and live in utter darkness.
THROWING THE ELEPHANT
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And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He's a schlemiel, for one, someone who is constitutionally unequipped for the rigors of contemporary life, and whose benighted gropings would seem tragic, if only they were not so comic.
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And I think, you know, I'd love to see our children and grandchildren get together here a hundred years from now and roll back a tape of this show and say how benighted we were or how right we were.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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If you are one of the benighted majority, you should know that he was one of those Victorian Scottish polymaths; a poet, theologian, and geologist of some genius.
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benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
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Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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While Broadway audiences may have found such bait-and-switch tactics to be titillating back in the benighted days of "Victor/Victoria," they're now more than capable of taking homosexuality straight, and the clumsy coyness with which Messrs.
'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort
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Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened , heed only one side and you will be benighted.
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My objectives are to find out what I can and to dispense succour to other poor benighted folk.
Times, Sunday Times
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He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
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This naturally entails a missionary element, bringing new revelations to the benighted souls in the art-complacent Antipodes.
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It is not modesty but experience that makes us loath to suppose that others are benighted if they do not accept the pedagogical advantages of the curriculum we happen to favor.
