Sentence examples for to be edifying from inspiring English sources

"Of course it is uplifting — why bother to take care of broken objects of the past if it is not going to be edifying, instructive?" he said.

Samuel Richardson, the author of the wildly popular "Pamela" (1740), meant the comparison to be edifying: beware the fair and easy way, dear Reader; follow the high and rocky path of virtue; and please do make my novel your companion along the way.

Call it a sixth sense, a gift from God, or too-damn-smart-for-my-own-good (my mom's phrase -- her attempt to be edifying... thanks Ma).

"We want education to be edifying and pleasant, not painful".

Transit officials do not intend these quotes to be edifying but to be memorized and repeated, ideally word for word, any time a conductor presses the intercom button and addresses his or her considerable audience, up to 2,000 passengers on a crowded morning train.

In addition to the welcome guests, there was a stream of uninvited and, according to Uehara, ill-mannered hippies, who would arrive expecting to be edified and fed.

Luckily, they were about to be edified: "Seafood in Vietnam is traditionally served with scallion oil and peanuts," a waiter explained, recommending, instead, a dish of clams and congee, which also came with the oil-and-peanut seasoning, yet managed to taste sprightly and oceanic.

He had created for himself a new public among the rising middle classes, who would have turned away in moral indignation from the Italian opera but who were quite ready to be edified by a moral tale from the Bible, set to suitably dignified and, by now, rather old-fashioned music.

Could you talk about the opportunity these events provide, not only to be edified by the content of those very conferences but to understand how it looks to draw ideas and inspiration?

WITH new-millennial Italian restaurants trending toward a more light-handed and region-specific take on traditional fare — led by young chefs whose fresh, fetishized burrata is flown in daily from Apulia and whose pizzas are topped not with pepperoni but with figs and gorgonzola — I thought it might be edifying to return to one of Westchester's venerable old-school establishments: Lusardi's.

While our sample size is limited, it is noteworthy that all three mutations seem to target the same enzymatic capacity; it might be edifying to examine additional patient mutations in this manner to see how broadly the pattern fits.