I wouldn't be concerned with others 'state of unenlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Vikings] Reference

He saw around him the folly and unenlightenment of the perpetual feud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

I want to save my country from poverty and unenlightenment, he wants to save its soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Israel should never give in nor concede a single inch to the forces of unenlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It means understanding, first of all, that the future is not a straightforward march from unenlightenment to paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our New Look: The Colors Of Race] Reference

Their deliberate unenlightenment, had it not been so tragic for those who suffered in consequence of it, must have been almost comical.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

On the other hand…OA people believe that what keeps people back from losing weight is being in the state of unenlightenment that obtains prior to working the steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orson Scott Card: Fat Activist Bedfellow?] Reference

But this form of control is not entirely evil, and in certain cases it may be a necessary stage in the development of a democracy passing from unenlightenment to enlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children: Some Educational Problems] Reference

This is the reality of 21st century America, a land modern and progressive yet fighting itself over a return to Middle Ages thought and understanding, with millions of citizens preferring the unenlightenment of Dark Ages rather than the liberation of modern thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poisoning of the Well] Reference

Perhaps the highest price we will pay will be in the form of our own stupidity, our ignorance, our immaturity, and the persistence of myth in our lives ... the separation of self from reality ... the persistence of unenlightenment and all the sorrow that that entails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Oil] Reference

Perhaps the highest price we will pay will be in the form of our own stupidity, our ignorance, our immaturity, and the persistence of myth in our lives ... the separation of self from reality ... the persistence of unenlightenment and all the sorrow that that entails. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of Oil] Reference

And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or unenlightenment of our nature: — Imagine human beings living in an underground den which is open towards the light; they have been there from childhood, having their necks and legs chained, and can only see into the den.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

I should clarify that I intend no personal aspersions against anyone and when I refer to grade school educated geezers with too much ego I am not referring to any person encountered on this blog, but to individuals of singular unenlightenment I have encountered in other spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man made global warming? No way!] Reference

I took that emotional leap into the pit of vipers for one, and only one reason: to be able to vote for John McCain in the June, 2000 primary; something that Bush's Brain, Karl Rove made to no purpose by spreading the rumor earlier in South Carolina, that putrid swamp of backwoods hypertensive racial intolerance and pervasive Dark Ages unenlightenment, that McCain had fathered a black love child.    From Wordnik.com.  [When can McCain misstatements be called lies?] Reference

Just another secular humanistic institution of higher unenlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProLifeBlogs] Reference

So, too, according to the Scriptures man is not a being, who is by slow degrees penetrating through, the mists of unenlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

When in fact, ridicule -- one tool in the comedian's toolbox -- is often the shortest distance between unenlightenment and its opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

"After all," reflected the accurate Katy, as though seeking an excuse for Madame de Treymes 'unenlightenment, "we don't know many French people, either.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame de Treymes.] Reference

Mrs. Dressel bent on her a brow of unenlightenment -- "Well, it doesn't matter: I only meant that I've always been afraid good clothes might keep my wings from sprouting!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

In it the mores of conservatism are developed, -- unchangeable manners, fixed usages and ideas, unenlightenment, refusal of new ideas, subserviency of the lower classes, and sycophancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

The villagers were not wont to waste time on the printed word; in fact, such was the profundity of their unenlightenment, few of them had heard of the magazine with a name beginning with "A.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)] Reference

And now I will describe in a figure the enlightenment or unenlightenment of our nature: -- Imagine human beings living in an underground den which is open towards the light; they have been there from childhood, having their necks and legs chained, and can only see into the den.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

Samir Frenja, who we’re told is to the left of 14 March, constantly boasts of a Lebanon distinguished from African “unenlightenment.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, May 27, 2008] Reference