edify
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It sometimes feels like our information-stuffed age has done little to inform or edify but a great deal to buttress those who think they have all the facts on their side.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
As our reviewer, Josh Lambert, observed, it celebrates, more broadly, “a traditional liberal faith in books themselves, and in their power to edify, soothe and unite people.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Yet Moreno-Garcia aims not just to edify but to thrill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
One story, The Millionaire, describes a disgraced man who undergoes ritual humiliation to edify people who want to witness “the version of the world you believe in”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2020
In fact, I am seldom without something to interest, amuse, or edify me.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various
Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.
From Time Magazine Archive
If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.
From Time Magazine Archive
See to it that your own conduct edifies them: it is according to you and all your actions that they will order their lives and take example.
From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
As the Holy Spirit and the Church are inseparable, everything that edifies the Church originates with the Holy Spirit,76 which in this, as well as every other respect, is inexhaustibly rich.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
Boston did, however, bring unity: The court spoke unanimously, through an opinion by retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is heading home to an edified Boston.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
For over thirty years, Mr. Plaschke’s stories have edified the biggest stars in the Los Angeles sports world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020
We’d been there for several hours by then, had consumed our blueberries and granola bars, were edified and overstimulated and thinking about making our way home after a while.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
Listening to Serial, This American Life, Radiolab, WTF with Marc Maron, or 99% Invisible, we expect to come out the other end edified and enriched, in complex ways.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.
From "1984" by George Orwell
All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Equally as edifying is Lincoln’s 1858 “electric cord” speech, which explicitly confronted Know-Nothing xenophobia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
But it’s an edifying experience, hurtling forward with only the mighty light of intrepid wonder to guide us.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
The atmosphere should probably sharpen your ears and restrain me to concentrate on those aspects which are tasty, edifying and constructive.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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