Rather than show my disdain outright and attach my friend's moral shortcomings, I started to ruminate a more edifying scheme. |
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After all, as the British government's linkman he also helped to arm them, but that is another and much less edifying story. |
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But like everybody else in public life, from politicians and pundits to performers and poets, Stewart wants to seem edifying and instructive. |
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That reservoir of opinions, attitudes and slants lifts our tolerance for one-sidedness into an appetite for edifying entertainment. |
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But that alone is not particularly edifying and so I do want to go into a little more detail. |
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They had been raised on edifying tales of Greek tyrannicides that always ended in the liberation of the city. |
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It wasn't an edifying match, but it couldn't be helped, as the main event had been hit by two withdrawals. |
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It was not a particularly edifying sight to see him reduced to playing in a lower Scottish league. |
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It was here that the monk spent much of the day reading and meditating on Scripture and other edifying texts. |
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Besides evangelizing the lost and edifying the saved, shouldn't the church also be the conscience for the community? |
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As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual. |
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There are about 220 students following the courses and the epistolary relationship with the students is both edifying and gratifying. |
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And in the interim, we thank him for this edifying initial look at his team's intriguing and very promising project. |
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His introductions and translations are scholarly, edifying, and link the mind with the heart. |
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Griffiths asserts that works read by religious readers are intrinsically fecund, inexhaustibly edifying, and delighting. |
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Until her death at 89 years of age, she led an edifying life of prayer and was favored with unusual gifts. |
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A look back at the origins of objections with intermediate effect would be edifying. |
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The willingness shown by the rapporteur to eliminate their influence is, in this respect, edifying! |
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An apparent assault on liberal economics by the French President and others was not an edifying sight. |
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Thus, faced with the position of large scale hydraulics defenders, it is always edifying to recall the ecological and social limits. |
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I would like once more to underline that the experience with the Education Action Plan can and should be edifying and applicable. |
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To fulfill such an office worthily you will need to be holy in your own life, and edifying always in the sight of other people. |
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We had a modest living in the countryside, it was simple yet edifying to be surrounded by a mountainous environment. |
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It is always most edifying to note that gentlemen wear a coat and tie to Holy Mass. |
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M de Cuéllar provided us with some edifying illustrations of this in his brilliant presentation. |
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We interviewed Roderick Shaw to gain an edifying glimpse behind the scenes. |
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His contact with Western culture was intense, but not necessarily edifying. |
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Let's examine a few practical aspects of that beautiful theory, concerning the edifying of souls through fine arts. |
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I've learned over the years that firsthand experience on the site is really edifying. |
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The results are edifying as neither expectation is borne out. |
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In general, the examples of emerging or recently developed countries, such as Korea, are edifying in this respect. |
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Also, if you have a spare moment this weekend between regular tryptophan ingurgitations and the Lions-Falcons game, you might check out this edifying article. |
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Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment. |
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The goal of making modern allegories legible and edifying to a general public without compromising their timeless universality was fraught with risk. |
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Her captivating style makes these edifying reflections a pleasure to read. |
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People would say that this wasn't an edifying sight, this is wrong. |
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Historians like Schama and Goodman are honor-bound to avoid that kind of edifying distortion. |
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So edifying was Mr. Nix's childhood brush with a swindler that he has spent years reading up on all variety of cheats and four-flushers. |
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And a lap of 'honour' after a 9-0 trouncing was still a more edifying post-escape spectacle than this. |
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This government investment also sends an edifying signal that these are not fly-by-night technology solutions. |
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The contest among them, which Mr Brown may remain to preside over, should be edifying. |
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Mr Perry duly obliged. What elections are forComedy, vanity, pomposity, flashes of mendacity: the Republican campaign has not been edifying. |
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When do we ever see elected officials engage in that sort of careful, thoughtful dialogue in an edifying way? |
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Alas, it does not necessarily make for a more edifying tale. |
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Most of them could find nothing pleasing or edifying in its use. |
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It would also have been edifying if Gonzales' opponents had recognized the possibility that information obtained through aggressive interrogation can save lives. |
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But we know that this claim, although edifying, is not really true. |
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Moral advice and edifying sentiments are found in this series of distichs. |
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Such intemperate exchanges will hardly count as edifying but they may, alas, be unavoidable. |
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I do not turn to Clarissa in times of duress, but then I am an unregenerate reader, too enthralled by Lovelace's legerdemain to linger over Richardson's edifying sentiments. |
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The statement of the Secretary General on that issue was very edifying. |
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There were observations he would make that would be edifying to me. |
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The human assessment for the last 30 last years is edifying. |
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The fabulous and edifying story of the French Colonies told and performed by the Illustre Compagnie du Palais des Merveilles, surrounded for the occasion of some natives! |
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And pundits can always be relied upon for edifying breed comparisons. |
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Pentecostals teach that believers must discern whether the utterance has edifying value for themselves and the local church. |
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I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining. |
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If medicine and psychology can advise us on what is healthy, they do so by a deductive reasoning that excludes what is unhealthy, rather than by a knowledge of what is edifying. |
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The richness of the fantasy of all these edifying symbols is impossible to assess: a dancing skeleton reminds us about the momentariness of life, a butterfly, about resurrection to an unconceivable new life. |
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You should speak the words that are only gracious and edifying. |
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The two Belgian cases provide edifying evidence of this. |
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Do not let any corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers. |
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I have the same diffidence in my feelings that most public speakers have, and am apt to think that others can speak better and more edifying than I can. |
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If little else, edifying his book most certainly is, having been written with a light pen, it is imaginative and humorous, almost cynical yet enjoyable. |
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That would be as edifying as a bacon cookoff in the middle of a kennel. |
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