QUOTES WITH «BENIGHTEDNESS»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
benightedness.
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENIGHTEDNESS»
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benightedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
benightedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays
Fred C. Hobson. to the surface tensions between the South and the outside world
and dramatizing what the Northeast considered to be southern benightedness.
As a result, Mencken and the American Mercury, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Crisis,
...
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Indovation: Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India
3. Austerity. in. the. Dark. Ages. Benightedness. It is said, Sir, that poverty is the
mother of invention – so is indolence the mother of imposture. Sociologist
Dipankar Gupta perceptively summarizes that the period after India's
Independencewas ...
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Myth and Southern History: The New South
When one examines the neo-abolitionist assault on the South in the 1920s, both
from within and from without, one finds a curious phenomenon: after a forty-year
respite from northern slings and arrows, the nature of southern benightedness ...
Patrick Gerster, Nicholas Cords, 1989
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A Southern Enigma: Essays on teh U.S. South
benightedness had changed. The South from its beginnings to the Civil War had
been considered benighted because it was reputed to be irreligious, sexually
promiscuous, and given to strong drink and inadequate moral seriousness.
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New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women ...
Xiaohong's reflections in the article remain vague and general; she mimics the
enlightenment language circulating in Chinese media by invoking the “civilization
and benightedness” and the “beauty and ugliness” of humanity in general. By not
...
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Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to ...
Doubtless all intelligent persons have contemplated the fact of the longcontinued
and unbroken benightedness of the continent of Africa; but perhaps they have not
had their attention called to the recent transitional state into which that ...
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, 1996
benightedness. (bi-NI-ted-ness) noun And he was so unabashed and
unrestrained. Wasn't it rather horrible, a man who could be so soulful and
spiritual, now to be so—she balked at her own thoughts and then she added—so
bestial?
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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The Future of Africa: Being Addresses, Sermons, Etc., Etc., ...
Doubtless all intelligent persons have contemplated the fact of the long-
continued and unbroken benightedness of the continent of Africa; but perhaps
they have not had their attention called to the recent transitional state into which
that ...
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A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, ...
And what could be the result of such a regimen as this, but degradation and
benightedness? Sir, it is one of the marvels of the world that they preserve so
many of the high instincts of humanity as they do — that they have not become,
long ere ...
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Origins of Human Innovation and Creativity
Psychical endowments of a lower grade than those characterising the
Andamaner cannot be conceived to exist: they stand next to brute benightedness.
(.) Applying the above argument to the Neanderthal skull, and considering . that it
more ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BENIGHTEDNESS»
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benightedness is used in the context of the following news items.
United States: The Hypocritical Hegemon
... that this is largely the former Sunni-led Iraqi army that was dissolved by the U.S. occupation forces in an act of all-time benightedness. «The Globalist, Jun 15»
Seaga shines as JLP seeks healing in the balm yard
Gains have been made at both the political directorate and electorate levels to close the chasm of political benightedness, malice, strife, and ... «Jamaica Observer, Mar 15»
Was The Giving Tree A Chump?
"I cannot understand why this book, which sentimentalizes entitlement, benightedness and contempt, became a classic of children's literature," ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
In measles fight some parents try snatching defeat out of the needle …
This movement against vaccines is benightedness masquerading as enlightenment. It has not emerged from some historically powerless set ... «NOLA.com, Feb 15»
There's always next year for even greater mindlessness to become …
This dying year, in eclipsing 2013 (which eclipsed 2012) in its benightedness, lived as the dumbest year in history. Pessimists have reason for ... «American Spectator, Dec 14»
Presidential variations
And it is also his benightedness of these histories that will put an end to the ambitions and illusions of Mar Roxas. – Rappler.com. Patricio N. «Rappler, Sep 14»
Channel 6ABC meteorologist Adam Joseph and partner welcome …
They believe in their long-instituted benightedness that viewers will not accept certain traits among personalities and that a personality will be ... «Main Line, Aug 14»
Channel 6 meteorologist Adam Joseph and partner welcome baby boy
They believe in their long-instituted benightedness that viewers will not accept certain traits among personalities and that a personality will be ... «Delaware County Daily Times, Aug 14»
Gordimer: A leader quite prepared to grubby herself in struggle politics
Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history. “Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa, wherever there ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 14»
Leah Hager Cohen: By the Book
I cannot understand why this book, which sentimentalizes entitlement, benightedness and contempt, became a classic of children's literature. «New York Times, May 14»
