Sentence examples for edifying life from inspiring English sources
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".
Putnam preferred to see philosophy reassert its traditional role of guiding, edifying, and inspiring human life.
The prospect of spending one's old age rigged up to sensors that document one's ebbing life force is not edifying.
He invokes edifying traditions epitomized by George Kennan the Elder, explorer extraordinary and author of "Tent Life in Siberia" (1871), now largely forgotten.
Something else has happened to Webern during the last three decades: we know far more about his life, and about his opinions, which were not all edifying.
In short, this was not very edifying.
