Even donniciuole, he says, were usually not so benighted.
Or the self he would be were he not so benighted.
Many joined with the thought of influencing, in some ways, the ' benighted ' peoples of the ancestral homeland.
When he does so, he is vowing not only to her, but to the freedom he yearns for and believes in as a possible outcome for his benighted life.
But benighted people do believe them.
One is to listen to what people say about their own experience, and the other is to listen to philosophers and philosophically minded social scientists who are less benighted.
They will save the poor benighted public from that by resisting this and that amendment because of information overload.
There is the bringing about of dereliction which, in most of those benighted towns, has been unvarying for a decade or more.