Example Sentences
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The mannequins displaying them are mostly dispersed throughout the home — including in the dining room — which makes the cultural arrogation at play painfully, if edifyingly, clear.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018
That’s the question this kind of story is meant to ask, but it’s been answered more edifyingly elsewhere.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2015
Stornoway Oxford Town Hall Then touring But there's no shortcut to mass adoration for a band with appeal this edifyingly nuanced.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2013
A cockeyed glint, a sudden shout, a shift of body weight--these tricks keep you watching, like a doting pathologist, to catch the moment an actor goes edifyingly nuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eye-witnesses testify that the customary function was performed most impressively and edifyingly and that Beethoven expressed his thanks to the officiating priest with heartiness.
From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
