edify

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

Gonzalez’s main strategies are to allow Olga’s mother to edify the reader along with her children through her letters and to have characters speak to each other in blocks of exposition.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

While there is, indeed, a camp of leadership who argue that it’s wiser to keep people in the door and continue to edify them, Cordileone is not among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

It would edify no one, only make us ridiculous.

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

This is an album that edifies even as it enchants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ken Loach's film, written by Rona Munro and based on a true story, horrifies and edifies in equal measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

If art no longer shocks, it seldom edifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is that which so often edifies me in Christian writers and speakers, when I ever so much disbelieve the letter of their sentences.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Newman, Francis William

This to God's children is full measure: It edifies and gives them pleasure.

From Rampolli by MacDonald, George

So I think he’s worked everywhere he could at as high a level as he could, and came back to run the Impossible Mission Force a great deal more edified.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

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

Whatever the two justices’ modest deficiencies in literary criticism, our contemporary public life would be edified by not only their jurisprudence but also their graces.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 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

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

“Blow Out” tees up an astonishing setup and payoff, yet does so with a graceful simplicity that makes returning to the film edifying no matter how many times you’ve seen it.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The machinery was imperfect, the politics were real, and those who lost were not always treated well—the history of what followed Nicaea is not uniformly edifying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

It’s also a central pillar of the pair’s edifying new sitcom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

“I’ll sit over here with Nell, and if you come across any particularly edifying moral precepts you think would do me good, read them aloud.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson