Birgeneau — and the students who might have been edified by his remarks — are victims of a shortsighted censoriousness that is becoming a familiar feature of graduation season.
None of this has been edifying, and many American commentators, coming down from their post-Iowa high, have lamented that race can still play such a toxic role in their politics.
Mr Perry duly obliged.What elections are forComedy, vanity, pomposity, flashes of mendacity: the Republican campaign has not been edifying.
And he has all but said that if he doesn't get a tunnel Ms Gregoire and her $2.4 billion can take a hike.The spectacle of the bulky, dark-haired Mr Nickels mud-wrestling with the diminutive, honey-haired Ms Gregoire has not been edifying.
For those of us who actually like to learn about the substance of a book, the other way round would have been more edifying.
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.
However, had you even passingly acknowledged that some women may spend their 20s neither clubbing nor child-rearing, but working, and their money on neither nappies nor handbags, but on down-payments for a house, that would have been still more edifying.
That would actually have been a lot more edifying.
Now that we've all been edified by these exhaustively researched conclusions what is, as Tiger Woods might have said regarding his trusty mashie, the upshot?
The school experience itself had been less edifying.
