Sentence examples for for their edification from inspiring English sources

But Hamid inspired me to make myself visible to the kind of people the media suggests hate me, and to make myself available for their edification.

For their edification -- and for anyone contemplating an It Girl career -- Casey Johnson, the baby powder heiress and one of the film's subjects, gives some helpful advice.

According to Mencius, the ruler was to provide for the welfare of the people in two respects: material conditions for their livelihood and moral and educational guidance for their edification.

When their master-author gives the characters for their edification a copy of The Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, a thick book "published in France a very, very long time ago", it turns out that Alain's 20-year-old girlfriend has never heard of Khrushchev – maybe "the name 'Stalin' was vaguely familiar".

DURING the scientific revolution of the 17th century, scientists were largely men of private means who pursued their interest in natural philosophy for their own edification.

It's more important for us to educate the masses than to set up these Taj Mahal sacred cows that basically suck the lifeblood from a community for their own edification".

Gerry Dawes, a wine expert's expert, is particularly savvy about Spain's food and wine scene, and takes America's top chefs to Spain for their own edification.

A knowing and often funny entertainment – or a serious psychological experiment in which real people experience horrific things for our and their edification.

The BFG blends dreams in a studio-like lab, his very own dreamworks; like a great cinematic artificer, the BFG, with his outsize ears, hears what he calls "all the secret whisperings of the world," the wishes and desires of the public at large, and then, capturing those intimations, remixes and repackages them and redelivers them for their entertainment and edification.

And let's not forget all the people dabbling with code for their own personal edification, rather than trying to productize something.

It is perfectly reasonable to propose that had we never thought to qualify and laud federal employees as professional, government would have stayed contained, growth would have been higher, and the American people would have retained a greater portion of that growth for their own enjoyment, edification, and betterment.