Sentence examples for have been very edifying from inspiring English sources
The grisly spectacle of Muammar Gaddafi's death and posthumous career as Misrata's most popular body art exhibit may not have been very edifying, and news that the deposed dictator of Libya has been quietly buried at a secret desert location has to be welcome.
If the humor were tamer or at least less chaotic, the timely discussion of sex and taboos might have been edifying -- or at least more fun.
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.
For those of us who actually like to learn about the substance of a book, the other way round would have been more edifying.
That would actually have been a lot more edifying.
The school experience itself had been less edifying.
It seems like half the country is running for president in 2016, but thus far neither the campaign nor the news coverage has been terribly edifying.
The council's subsequent record as the Lebanon war has unfolded in all its unchecked barbarity has been even less edifying.
The earliest magazine appears to have been the German Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen (1663 68; "Edifying Monthly Discussions"), started by Johann Rist, a theologian and poet of Hamburg.
Stirring, strengthening, and edifying the ceremony may have been, yet it was badly short on surprise.
