Mr Osborne's hero, a self-pitying, self-dramatising intellectual rebel who drives his wife away, takes a mistress and then drops her when his wife crawls back, will not be thought an edifying example of chivalry.
Finally, an edifying case of sticker shock.
This is not going to be an edifying way of doing government and nor will it look it.
Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds' intimate witness to Hitler's ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller: innocents abroad, the gathering storm.
It was not an edifying moment, in a season full of them, but despite Chelsea's dismal form Mourinho still sees the possibility of success this year.
Rather than justifying Pico's highly individual career, More is concerned to sketch the outline of an edifying life: in effect, Pico's conversion from the early arrogance with which he had proposed to defend his nine hundred Conclusiones against all comers to a career of selfless scholarship, dedicated to "the love of God and the profit of his church".
But early in Season 1, which is now available, an edifying question is asked that spurs a group of young women to buck tradition and demand equal standing in journalism.
It's fortunate that the cartoons on display are such instantly satisfying works of popular genius, because, despite its subject, "Herblock" shows how even an edifying talking-heads documentary bumps up against the limitations of the format.
It was an edifying speech, but Obama was soon instructed in the limits of unilateral good will.
Enacting the role of chief government witness was not an edifying experience, Eriksson went on.
