Moreover, Banagale envisions a world where all wrongs will be righted by this benighted currency.
He saw them as poor benighted people who needed his guidance and a British education.
Ireland was a benighted place when his political career began, and a bright one when he died.
In the circumstances, you wonder whether the phrase wasn't a deliberate glance at the poor benighted crew of the Essex.
Some southern intellectuals dispute the view that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Naples brought progress to a benighted Mezzogiorno.
Inside he will find a paradox: an institution as complex as a civilisation, both more enlightened and benighted than he imagines.
Literally meaning ignorance, the term was originally used to describe the benighted condition of Arabia prior to the advent of Islam.
Similarly, most Belgians were convinced that Belgium was in Congo for the sole purpose of educating and uplifting the benighted natives.
The managers that got banks into this mess are still at their desks, and it is hard to see how revived banks can prosper in future under such a benighted lot.
Despite his evident affection for even the most benighted of the villagers, Sembene, eighty-two years old and the first internationally acclaimed African filmmaker, seems to flatter the Western notions of progress that are making inroads.
Playing off the Citizens United decision, Andy Gillstrap created Citizens Benighted to highlight the downsides of super PACs, and he plans to spend any money raised to elect members of Congress who want to reform the campaign-finance system.
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