From a safe distance and still rubbing his buttocks, " Benighted fool! " shouted the man from The Fordian Science Monitor, " why don't you take soma? "
And citizens of a few benighted places, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, have to submit to the cost and bureaucracy and often the humiliation—of the visa-application process to get to most places.
Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms of complete strangers around our benighted planet.
'What is so unusual in you, ' she said, in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker, 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things'.
They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.
Europeans will better understand his point of view than Americans, poor, benighted provincials, who are denied a true appreciation of caste and of the fact that " the king can do no wrong" .
So, all notions that the British were trying to do their colonial enterprise out of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of colonialism and civilisation to the benighted.
Then, for the benefit of benighted human brains, it can apply a mathematical technique which compresses the whole thing back to two dimensions, for ease of viewing.
It was the kind of well-intentioned but benighted commentary that you expect from people who inhabit environments where there aren't very many Black people.
Most Chinese priests, he thought, smiling, are so benighted that they won't understand the value of the wordless scriptures, and all the effort of the pilgrimage will be wasted.
But as he slept benighted in the forest he dreamed that carrion-birds sat thick as leaves upon bare trees beside a mere, and blood dripped from their beaks.