Portions of the document were edifying, but there was little edifying in its reception.
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It is both an edifying read and an exhilarating one.
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Watching Trump debate was edifying for all the wrong reasons.
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What's been edifying during the process of writing the book?
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One is about your partner's responsibility for edifying his parents.
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The book also drew praise for its edifying story line.
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Besides, the precepts Evans offers are both edifying and entertaining.
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Some of these films are strange, some funny, and some edifying.
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The reactions in the two countries have been stunning—and edifying.
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We hope that they are more edifying than the House hearings.
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There is no easy answer, but some historic figures offer edifying examples.
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The accompanying sambal, in a plastic tub, was all chile, and edifying.
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That's not to say that the ensuing conversation would have been edifying.
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Online, many just skip the bits that are meant to be morally edifying.
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There's always something edifying about looking back on the earliest days of our idols.
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The results are edifying, even if they seem to be more outreach than art.
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It's voyeurism of the mundane, and it's edifying in a way melodramatic entertainment rarely is.
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In many ways, this is all just political theater — and not a particularly edifying version.
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The treasure hunt for the most amazing ______ (fill in the blank) will be so edifying.
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Historians like Schama and Goodman are honor-bound to avoid that kind of edifying distortion.
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I spend a lot of my time looking for edifying ways of interacting with technology.
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I've been CTO of HappyFunCorp since last year, and it has been a deeply edifying experience.
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It's addictive and edifying, like popping a special kind of bubble wrap that expands your vocabulary.
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His oeuvre stands as a reminder that weirdness in unexpected precincts can be electrifying and edifying.
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Throughout our interview, Kojima expressed a desire for Death Stranding to offer a similarly edifying experience.
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It's an indisputably cool discovery, positively edifying, and though I got to go, my head is spinning y'all.
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But a dejected left-wing and liberal group should remember that these accounts are emotionally gratifying, not edifying.
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If there have already been some glorious moments on the pitch, events elsewhere have been significantly less edifying.
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"It hasn't been an edifying conflict," said David B. Roberts, a Gulf expert at King's College in London.
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Instead, focus on the edifying conversations that might come from presenting a different side, or a new idea.
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On Tennis PARIS — Interviewing Dominic Thiem's grizzled coach, Gunter Bresnik, was, as usual, an edifying experience on Thursday.
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The tech world seems to have been field-testing that thought experiment, and the results have not been edifying.
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In the Book Review, Phil Gailey said Lewis's work was "deeper, funnier and more edifying" than more usual insider accounts.
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Jaya Howey: Edifying Lines for Sensitive Readers continues at Bureau (178 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through October 23.
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Leela Kids gives caretakers peace of mind that whatever their charges are listening to is age-appropriate and reasonably edifying.
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Here is a compilation of some of the most edifying footage on the topic, totaling 38 minutes and 19583 seconds.
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When he's not thrashing about in a tub of self-disgust, however, Mr. Brown is charming, thoughtful and edifying company.
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This may be, as Judge Starr suggests, an edifying process in which a deeper debate will occur, I certainly hope so.
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Until then, readers can get a historical view through Joseph Alexiou's edifying "Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal" (New York University Press, $29.95).
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"The delight a child gets from touching a screen and making something happen is both edifying and potentially addictive," he says.
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They capture the zeitgeist with edifying TED Talks, best-selling autobiographies and social media presences that rival those of rock stars.
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If not, please join me for this edition of An Expert Tells You You're Doing The Sex Wrong, because it's edifying.
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At this moment in history, it's still edifying, for a moment, to look at the man and realize he's only that.
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Despite efforts to elevate "Love Island" into something culturally edifying, the continuities with shows like Mr. Kyle's are hard to miss.
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Those of us who fear loss of control of our lives more than we fear death will find Abraham's book edifying.
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By turns edifying and entertaining, this investigation into the lives of the Twelve Apostles mixes irreverent travelogue and earnest textual analysis.
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It is edifying to watch their reporting effort, but disheartening to see the lack of political will and transparency they face.
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Part edifying discourse and part revenge fantasy, an apocalyptic story passes judgment upon civilization as irredeemably corrupt and unable to be reformed.
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Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.
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She may also have associated it with Maxine's gossip about some of the less edifying episodes linked to the Churchills' rootless son.
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I learn a lot every week reading the comments, and if there were space, I'd offer shout outs to the most edifying.
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More than an edifying primer on a fascinating and under-recognized mode of performance, the film offers 90 minutes of pure buoyancy.
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"14 July" (2017), for example, directed by Haşim Aydemir, is a stirring but edifying retelling of a 1980 hunger strike by Kurdish prisoners.
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Best exemplified by this sickly cutscene from Ride, racing games insist there is something more to driving, something edifying or ethereal—almost religious.
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I would have thought that others in the family would want to share with you the work of edifying your father-in-law.
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IT IS China's least edifying diplomatic strategy, and it is certainly not from "The Analects" of Confucius or from Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
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These comments on Cruzgate from respected law professors represent an unfortunate intrusion into a Republican campaign season that has already been less than edifying.
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Sacred books, in this understanding, have the same edifying role as great philosophical and literary works (this parallels Brooks advocacy for "the Western canon").
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Nobody wants to lose the edifying and necessary knowledge that in the aftermath of a crushing defeat there is always someone else to blame.
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Beyond that, it was self-edifying to acquire a skill the world regarded as valuable, and more, to be lauded for it, for anything.
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For Nancy, her time in North Dakota had accomplished what recovery and therapy could not and reminded her of the edifying responsibility of family.
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"We have this cultural value of media consumption being edifying, and that what we do should be about growing and achieving," Dr. Nabi said.
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Today's puzzle is quite dazzling without being too obscure, challenging without being too frustrating, and entirely edifying and satisfying — very much like its subject.
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While a longer look at the night in question could have been far more edifying, the brief running time is part of the point.
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You may well ask whether the rape of a young lady by a bull-like creature is an edifying symbol for a multi-national enterprise.
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But even if straight women didn't abandon their male lovers — and most didn't — the ability to feel anger toward men was edifying for the movement.
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I consider these things edifying now, and they helped carry me through the difficult phase, the phase where I was scared and hating my skin.
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I see that soothing white light in my periphery, and I can't help but want to be soaked in my own self-edifying glow of data.
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The election campaign taking place in the port city on the Gulf of Mexico, and in the surrounding state of the same name, is less edifying.
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That's a question raised, if not definitively answered, by "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art," an intermittently edifying and generally entertaining exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
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On the other hand, the premise of this question — that literature can be edifying, and temper the crueler impulses of power — I wonder if that's even true.
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By conflating Locke and Aristotle as well as deism with both Christianity and philosophy, Jaffa seemed to be engaged more in creating edifying myths than convincing scholarship.
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Leaving aside any sappy rhetoric, Kon — together with Cowboy Bebop's screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto — devises an edifying Christmas carol that doubles as a contemporary tale of humanist piety.
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"That this edifying bit of wisdom is now being promulgated by a retail giant is just one of the merry paradoxes of our age," Mr. Isherwood wrote.
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"That this edifying bit of wisdom is now being promulgated by a retail giant is just one of the merry paradoxes of our age," Mr. Isherwood wrote.
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Neighborhood churches, some of them built and sustained by successful fellow immigrants with a stake in edifying their greenhorn countrymen, were crucial, especially to the poorest migrants.
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After intense conversations, I desperately crave a coda—something to do that feels edifying, transporting, mutually supportive, and intentional, and that brings some levity to our time together.
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Usually, my friends, over my objections, preferred this to playing ball—or to other popular, if less edifying, neighborhood pursuits, such as tearing hood ornaments off parked cars.
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This is football at its most innocent, football at its most edifying, even if it is occasionally punctuated by unsavoury incidents involving mascot-on-mascot violence and drugs.
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Throughout these works, created from 1900 to 1924, Ms. Mearns showed the edifying way she uses the rise and fall of weight to create the illusion of lightness.
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In 1987, the musicologist John Spitzer published an amusing and edifying article about the Sinfonia Concertante for Winds, K. 297b, which was long thought to be by Mozart.
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All of White's books have felt edifying, but it's his elegiac AIDS chronicle, "The Farewell Symphony," that confirmed to me what kind of writer I had to be.
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It is edifying that the Badger State rejected Mr. Trump, not least because it puts the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination outright all but beyond his grasp.
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With all of this in mind, a movie about the dangers of technological climate interventions could in theory serve a valuable role, edifying the public on a nuanced scientific topic.
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Courtesy UCL Culture, London Lord knows the show's curators, led by the Met's Sheena Wagstaff and Luke Syson, go into that question, with edifying wall texts and erudite catalogue essays.
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It is edifying to see a show of Warhol photographs isolated from the rest of his work, a compelling counterpoint to the monumental Warhol retrospective at the Whitney last year.
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We are no longer living out the legacy of Weber's edifying tale of Puritan spiritual entrepreneurship, harnessing the ascetic labors of the Old World to conquer a fledgling colonial-mercantile economy.
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But they also allow the chief justice to ignore, speed or delay certain dossiers for less edifying reasons, and to feed controversial cases to colleagues whose records suggest a particular outcome.
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I don't think it's very edifying to have your nose in every corner of modern popular culture, but I've got nephews and daughters playing me things and I just dig music.
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His homophobic treatment of Justin Fashanu and implication in the bungs scandal of the nineties were rather less edifying, even if he denied all allegations of corruption vehemently until his death.
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If you aren't familiar with the process that goes into looking like a bikini model for all of 48 hours or so, it might be edifying for you to find out.
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Pulling up the most clickable stuff might be great for business growth but it's really not so edifying for the eyeballs and minds encountering the base stuff your tech ends up pushing.
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Nothing about the pushing, shoving, and chanting that accompanied this month's congressional vote in favor of impeaching Brazil's president was very edifying — one man, however, threw all political protocol to the wind.
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President Trump's televised sit-down with Democratic congressional leaders in the Oval Office on Tuesday was fast-paced, spicy and even occasionally edifying — though perhaps not in the way its participants intended.
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Luke Dormehl is the rare lay person — a journalist and filmmaker — who actually understands the science (and even the math) and is able to parse it in an edifying and exciting way.
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Probably the most edifying example of pulling the yellow card was the case of arch anti-gay Louisiana pastor Grant Storms—a guy who had previously preached against the evils of masturbation.
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"We are not the EU and [in] any case, it is now clear that the EU is not the most edifying of models for Asean to emulate," the diplomat said in his speech.
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While the overall scale of wage theft in Indonesia is forbiddingly hard to establish, there are a few edifying case studies that the WRC and other industry critics have documented in some detail.
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On the other hand, a lot of the clues that stumped me entirely turned out to be edifying, which as you know is a major raison d'être for my solving puzzles at all.
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Woven into the film, and supplying its most edifying parts, are the sections in which Anthony shows how Baltimore's rat infestation and racism originate in and are enmeshed with the city's historical development.
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So next time an American politician is considering quoting a Psalm, whether in "light humour" or with any purpose, he might consider choosing a different one; there are so many more obviously edifying passages.
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It was edifying to see the Kammerspiele theaters packed night after night, especially following its rocky last season, which saw dwindling audience numbers and attacks by conservative politicians on its artistic director, Matthias Lilienthal.
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Around the same time, Deadspin ran an edifying/enraging summary of the raft of predatory lending practices many say have been baked into the Quicken Loans culture despite the do-gooder image it projects.
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They could be frustrating and rarely edifying to deal with, but no one would expect otherwise — in the same way that no one would expect to be entertained on a trip to the dry cleaners.
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I mentioned a tertiary element, one that was quite edifying to yours truly and anyone else who is unfamiliar with the heartbreak of losing a favorite player to expulsion for some imaginary (or real) affront.
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While this year's presidential circus hasn't been the most edifying of spectacles, the opportunity to reduce regulatory harm is right there in the open for any candidate brave enough to pursue a serious economic reform program.
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The main difficulties for me, when solving, were the appearance of three seven-letter words that ended in "ii," which seemed impossible, and a pretty big handful of clues that I found obscure but ultimately edifying.
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Far too many artists within my social media cluster shared the piece, commenting as if Brooks had finally voiced their bated whispers, that, yes, absolutely, yes, beauty, like the beautiful art they make, is morally edifying.
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The news has some AI advocates like Kriti Sharma of Sage Group excited that the federal government can be an edifying force in the development of AI, but there's ample reason to be skeptical of this idea.
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It was edifying and sometimes inspiring, seeing how stuff like Hood By Air, or My Chemical Romance, or Hedi Slimane, or fetish culture trickles down to the high street and is recreated by people in their own way.
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She's heartbroken, but it's also a strangely edifying moment for her; she's become a bit warier of the world, and like The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the film explores the boundaries of consent but never feels exploitative.
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The botanists Nathanial Lord Britton and his wife, Elizabeth, chose the site after visiting London's Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, opening their own city's garden in 21920 in the hope of preserving botanical specimens and edifying the public.
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The anachronistic entitlements won by the all-powerful print unions, the gentlemen's agreements between the titles, their dutiful provision to the public of an edifying diet of political news; all are part of the same establishment to be razed.
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If you're looking for a way to close out your week that's entertaining, edifying and looks like you're doing real work, check out Chimeria:Grayscale, a game where you act as an HR person dealing with everyday office problems via email.
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This edifying tale has been revived recently by conservative opponents of Trump, such as George Will, who writes in National Review: So, conservatives today should deal with Trump with the firmness Buckley dealt with the John Birch Society in 1962.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "What Mandela Lost" (Sunday Review, July 8): Reading Nelson Mandela's letters concerning the need to maintain the fight for human dignity, and the power of writing to provide solace in times of distress, was edifying.
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Leaving aside the legal question of who controls Mr. Mueller, whose service as special counsel will soon end, Congress is well within its rights to ask him to testify, and the proceedings would be edifying for lawmakers and the public alike.
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Some critics have suggested that Mr. Trump watch different programming — maybe some edifying scripted TV. His predecessor, Barack Obama, was a fan of "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones," so we know the White House has the budget for HBO.
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It builds on the best traditions in America, imposes only very modest costs on the federal government and asks Americans to give back at a time when most of the Washington debate is having no such edifying effect on our nation's citizenry.
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We took the test and were pretty surprised to learn we were split down the middle left/right brained (strategic painting FTW!), but actually found it quite edifying to know what each of our answers meant in terms of brain function and reasoning abilities. Curious?
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Not the most edifying reason for existing — to generate wealth, primarily for people who aren't artists and don't work in the arts, in the midst of a near-constant political crisis and some of the most staggering economic inequality this country has ever known.
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Her flavors are strong but balanced, as in sinigang, a soup suffused with tamarind to deliver an edifying sourness, and beef a lo pobre, so-called pauper's steak, a broad plank of Angus rib-eye anointed with the most minimal seasonings and tasting of plenty.
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" He notes later that blackface was a form that "implicitly rested on the idea that Black culture and Black people existed only insofar as they were edifying for whites and that claims to 'authentic' blackness could be put on and washed off at will.
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Here's a grimly edifying set-piece for twenty-first-century feminists to ponder: when my grandmother was a teenager at Greenwich Academy, a girls' prep school in Connecticut, she and her fellow students were required to pose nude for photographs taken by the P.E. teacher.
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These videos give us a peek at what these YouTubers spend, and for people who have never tallied up their own weekly totals, the results of doing so can be edifying, revealing iced coffee orders that add up or a tendency to splurge on bad days.
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Onkyo H500M + Detachable, twisted wire with in-line microphone + Comfortable and light + Pretty - Extremely, unpleasantly narrow soundstage - Creaky, unconvincing construction - Absentee bass and unimpressive treble lead to overemphasized mids When edifying friends about technology, I always underline the importance of judging each product on its own individual merits.
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Instead, he was eternally dad-ish and edifying, and equipped with a genuine admiration for young people that served him wonderfully as he scoured the earth with stories and collaborators—all of that is true and righteous, and I suppose that aged him in a spiritual, stately sort of way.
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Brazilian media reported that President Rousseff was visibly affected by the comments as she watched the vote on TV. Nothing about the pushing, shoving, and chanting that accompanied this month's congressional vote in favor of impeaching Brazil's president was very edifying — one man, however, threw all political protocol to the wind.
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But a minority of them are genuinely edifying, and illustrations of his likely world-historical role — which is not to personally bring down our constitutional republic, but to reveal truths about our political situation, through his crudeness and goading of others, that might be harbingers of the Republic's eventual end.
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Bloomberg's campaign will likely do a good job of edifying voters that it's not a mistake to elect a businessperson -- just that Americans elected the wrong one last time -- and Biden's gravitas and re-emergence on that national stage will remind Americans what it's like to have a steady hand guiding the country.
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Case's games have much in common: they are often done with simple art, to help convey their point more immediately; they are all focused on one message at a time, but with well-researched points and plenty of examples; and they are all as fun to play with as they are edifying.
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Clips caught moments of my kids goofing off and fighting in Disney's endless lines, playing catch at home, dancing like adorable maniacs — moments too spontaneous or seemingly slight for me to have caught with my camera, but that will probably paint a more accurate and edifying picture of our lives in 30 years.
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And in a fraught dispute over the electability of a woman presidential hopeful that broke out between Warren and Bernie Sanders just prior to the Iowa caucus, we got an edifying glimpse of the broader fatalist worldview that has rapidly overtaken the Democratic Party's discursive mainstream on the crucial question of gender equality.
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This is the shrinkage that takes place in the modern story of the very long life: First comes love, then marriage, the baby in the carriage, and after decades, the retirement joint with craft classes, edifying programs, exercise routines, followed by the broken hip, assisted living, and finally, the dementia unit, the lockup.
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His rough and sometimes nasty demeanor worries the hand-wringers in the elite media and other institutions, but it is no more coarse in the minds of many everyday Americans than the sex-saturated, expletive-laden, and violence-edifying content foisted on America by the same cultural elites that tell them Trump is a cretin.
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It's edifying and fun, an ideal excuse, if you should need one, to grab the kids and head for the beach — and it also happens to illustrate the difference architecture makes, in this case to residents in one of the city's most underserved communities and to a neighborhood of honky-tonk amusement parks and oceanfront.
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The crux of the issue is that with autism there is often, not metaphorically but literally, a lack of voice, which renders the person a tabula rasa on which a writer can inscribe and project almost anything: Autism is a gift, a curse, super intelligence, mental retardation, mystical, repellent, morally edifying, a parent's worst nightmare.
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Edifying Lines for Sensitive Readers at Bureau gallery consists of 11 white canvases, each just shy of four by three feet, and three installations, each comprised of a narrow wooden bench; seven, eight, or nine custom-made cushions stacked under and upon the bench; and one or two rectangular pieces of fabric attached to the wall behind it.
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But despite McKay's suspicion of "old forms" — despite his conviction that, circa 2018, the best use for a big megaphone is to deliver urgent and edifying messages as loudly as possible — spending all your time exploring the dark side can be wearying, especially if you spent much of your career chasing sillier and sillier ways to make strangers laugh.
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Thus, the Internet is middling on your lost credit card or Kindle, but edifying on your lost Roomba (look inside upholstered furniture), your lost marijuana (your high self probably hid it in a fit of paranoia; try your sock drawer), your lost drone (you'll need a specially designed G.P.S.), or your lost bitcoins (good luck with that).
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Obviously we could list just about any app (or game) here, but we've focused on ones that are genuinely useful, educational, or edifying, as well as apps that you can dip in and out of for just a few minutes at a time—the time when you'd typically be flicking through your Twitter feed or sharing a photo of your lunch on Instagram.
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Even more edifying was that of the 40 worries that did occur, most of them fell into two categories: Either they happened but didn't seem nearly as bad as I worried they would be (such as needing to dip into savings), or they happened but there was nothing I could have done to prevent them (such as whether a friend broke up with his significant other).
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And once you've read enough about the younger set you might be ready to graduate to higher education: Zadie Smith's satirical stunner "On Beauty," inspired by E. M. Forster's "Howards End," features an unmoored British-born art history professor on an elite American campus and his mixed-race family, and displays Smith's affinities for both young adults and the elders charged with edifying them.
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The protesters who took to the streets on Saturday are trying, in their way, to create a new political language for Asian-Americans, but this language comes without any edifying history — no amount of nuance or qualification or appeal to Martin Luther King will change the fact that the first massive, nationwide Asian-American protest in years was held in defense of a police officer who shot and killed an innocent black man.
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Now a lot has changed since then and he has a much more a much warmer perspective and he's definitely embraced my career, but I also not for nothing, he takes pride in the project and that's really special to him and I brought him on stage when I performed at the Sunburn Festival [one of India's largest EDM events] and I also brought my grandpa on stage when I performed on Sunburn and those were really magical moments on an emotional level, but also maybe edifying for him to see you know just to see what heights music can bring you.
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