For a truly vapid and incomprehensible yet edifyingly elitist waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Finding that he was a character, I carried on the conversation; and he talked most edifyingly to all in the room, as he spoke loud enough to be heard at the very end. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
While these folks seem quite sincere in their worship, and are edifyingly from my point of view opposed to abortion, their attitudes when the homeless come up are anything but encouraging. From Wordnik.com. [Amp interviewed on a right-wing website] Reference
Gellert which vividly and edifyingly impressed young hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Gellert's Last Christmas From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation] Reference
Another thinks him most edifyingly liberal in his interpretation of duty. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
Be a part of Facebook, of other media, but do so thoughtfully, responsibly, edifyingly. From Wordnik.com. [Provocations & Pantings] Reference
The doctrine of complete preparedness was edifyingly set forth by a well-informed writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)] Reference
Yet no one embodied this edifyingly codependent relationship between government and sofa more completely than the Garraway-Drapers. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
If you talk to your neighbour, speak reasonably, prudently, instructively, edifyingly; avoid idle speaking as the poison of a serpent, remembering that. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
The gofpel of Chrift hath been fuccefsfully preached, and the facra - ments, with other inftitutions, have been edifyingly difpenfed, in national churches. From Wordnik.com. [A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections] Reference
Every boy who has ever put together model villages knows how to do these things, and the attentive reader will find them edifyingly represented in our photographic illustrations. From Wordnik.com. [Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.] Reference
The huge procession was accompanied by a multitude of officers, and many illustres, spectabiles, and clarissimi were seen edifyingly commingled with the poor, and amicably walking with them side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference
Then he ought to have died and swung edifyingly, but instead a more terrible thing happened; his head came right off, and down the body went spinning to the sea, feeble, grotesque, fantastic, with the head racing it in its fall. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
They spoke intelligently and edifyingly to one another, for the increasing and improving of faith and holiness; they spoke one to another in the language of those that fear the Lord and think on his name -- the language of Canaan. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Even less edifyingly, she ignores the wails from those who actually live their green values, and who could weep with frustration that their message is being so ostentatiously compromised by someone given to thundering defensively about her "use of private aviation fuel". From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This modern doctrine of liberty has of late been strikingly and edifyingly enforced on the minds of some of our brethren and sisters in the new states, to whom the offer of relinquishing their principles or their property and lives has been tendered with the same admirable explicitness. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
How often (thought I) have I been forced to swallow, in police-reports, the intolerable stereotyped pill of nonsense, how that the police-constable informed the worthy magistrate how that the associates of the prisoner did, at that present speaking, dwell in a street or court which no man dared go down, and how that the worthy magistrate had heard of the dark reputation of such street or court, and how that our readers would doubtless remember that it was always the same street or court which was thus edifyingly discoursed about, say once a fortnight. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
How often (thought I) have I been forced to swallow, in police reports, the intolerable stereotyped pill of nonsense, how that the police-constable informed the worthy magistrate how that the associates of the prisoner did, at that present speaking, dwell in a street or court which no man dared go down, and how that the worthy magistrate had heard of the dark reputation of such street or court, and how that our readers would doubtless remember that it was always the same street or court which was thus edifyingly discoursed about, say, once a fortnight. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
In this united capacity Mr Sobersides had now continued to officiate for several years, during the course of which he contrived to accumulate a very considerable portion of the world’s wealth; the rather that though he was extremely Pharisaical in his outward deportment, and no man could utter the responses on Sunday in his elevated station before the assembled inhabitants with a more solemn and edifyingly sanctified tone, yet he, in truth, possessed a most accommodating conscience, and never scrupled to overlook any violation of the law, so long as he obtained good and sufficient reasons of. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
But a little while ago you spoke so edifyingly! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
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