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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

And in support of his position he very edifyingly quoted Ophelion, and Fabianus Papirius, and Sextius Niger to boot.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch