Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding: like a careless rider, cut off from the company, alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction.
Alice Thomas Ellis, The Clothes in the Wardrobe. Amazon
The benighted inhabitants of Italy, a land, lost in the darkness of error, still persist in their fasts, notwithstanding the evident folly of their ways—and the Norwegian sailors provide them with large quantities of fish for their idolatrous customs, bringing back their wines in exchange
What's more, advanced cloning techniques have meant that television, that most potent of guides to public morals and lifestyles in this benighted land, now teems with dominators and dominatrices modelled on the dark mistress of The Weakest Link.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 19 June 2007. Guardian
"Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will" - Anonymous