Sentence examples for in the edifying from inspiring English sources

An unshakable optimism is also at the heart of the musical's belief in the edifying power of romantic love, which glows in every bar of its most beloved songs.

At the very least you might prepare to find yourself in the edifying presence of the formality, exoticism and stylistic grandeur that most of us associate with the revered art of Kabuki.

Those of us who spend our lives in the edifying pursuit of bringing VICE to the world get to see the very tip of our spear sharp and glimmering in the Friday evening moonlight rip into America's living rooms at the end of each week.

Nearing 40, she took a small role in one other movie ("The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot," by Nina Companéez) and called it quits.

They kept repeating the same lines, like the edifying one in which Mr. Mack accused Mr. Nelson of owning cows to avoid paying taxes on a piece of land, and Mr. Nelson shooting back: "There have been cows on that property for 60 years".

It was meant as a comparative-conceptual platform on which to erect the edifying features of rationalization in the West.

So that was the edifying part.

Syria's past sheds light on its yearlong uprising, and its likely resolution, in this edifying account by a Middle East scholar.

But the chairman's fidelity to one of the sport's brightest hopes, Roberto Martinez, is in edifying contrast to the graceless grumblings we have come to expect from the likes of Sullivan.

The play itself is an earnest retelling of a moment in history, edifying and polished, filled with the particulars of Senate procedure, vote counting, and political arm-twisting, with perhaps a few too many speeches and moments of civics-class explication in between.

Bolzano treated these and many other questions of practical relevance also in his "edifying addresses" (Erbauungsreden), of which the first collection was published already in 1813 (in a second edition 1839), and five volumes were published posthumously.