Sentence examples similar to edifying examples from inspiring English sources
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?
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His "shock jock" views are not always edifying: he has described the Koran as a "book of hate", for example, and said horrid things about autistic children.
In short, this was not very edifying.
