The presidential campaign would be more edifying (and more relevant to the problems so many American face) if it focused directly on the need to renegotiate a social contract that once provided broadly inclusive prosperity but is now in grave jeopardy.
For those of us who actually like to learn about the substance of a book, the other way round would have been more edifying.
Muddling through history, policy, and law has rarely been more edifying, and we hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.
Fourth Plinth stream oneandother.co.uk While most of the plinthers are just as boring as Big Brother contestants, their standing around is more edifying because it is art, so you can watch without feeling guilty.
While Morales' skill with a soccer ball is impressive, one wonders if a more thorough examination of why the president's detractors want him out of power might have been more edifying.
But he decided that he wanted a school "more edifying to Christ".
What the authorities did encourage — or did less to discourage — were printmaking and other forms of graphic communication that, in theory at least, could be more broadly accessible to, and edifying for, the masses.
A person could spend a lot of time unpacking the assumptions about race, class, and gender underlying his piece (do tough questions sound less grating in a male, Massachusetts accent?), but the process is more likely to be tiring than edifying.
It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orators of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
And yes, you can say that talking to a human being is a more edifying experience than beholding a monument.
