Sentence examples for edifying example of from inspiring English sources
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.
Despite the questionable intentions of a photographer looking for scandal in every social bouquet, this edifying example of paparazzi photography chronicles a cultural moment and those who defined it, yielding a few life lessons in the faces and the behavior of the unsuspecting prey captured so doggedly by the hunter.
Probably the most edifying example of pulling the yellow card was the case of arch anti-gay Louisiana pastor Grant Storms a guy who had previously preached against the evils of masturbation.
That hardly sets an edifying example for young scholars, such as those involved in the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, a group of students and educators whose annual meeting takes place this year in Ambrose's hometown of Whitewater, Wis.
Tommy Wilhelm, the anti-hero in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, is another edifying example.
After the New York Missionary Society had staged a meeting with the leaders of the Osage Indians in order, or so they said, to present them with a copy of the Bible, Paine asked sarcastically what good this was intended to do: Will they [the Osage Indians] learn sobriety and decency from drunken Noah and beastly Lot; or will their daughters be edified by the examples of Lot's daughter?
The book's price is justified if only for the reproduction of Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder's Allegory of Iconoclasm (112), an amazing Arcimboldoesque example of edifying destruction.
National historical traditions, culture and edifying education of a nation are concerned with the educational process.
A legitimately funny point was being made there, something about the naturally didactic and edifying urges of the Marsalis family.
In the whole of Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, there is only one secular narrative painting – of the highly edifying tale of Aeneas Fleeing Troy.
It was meant as a comparative-conceptual platform on which to erect the edifying features of rationalization in the West.
