Edifying in a sentence as an adjective

I thought it was a great and edifying book, but towards the end he did the same thing as in this article. He went off preaching half baked ideas about morality like a hippy.

A counter-example: r/DepthHub is a meta sub which is both civilized and edifying.

Is that supposed to be edifying? Obviously, when people say "anything is possible you just have to work at it" or things like that, they assume the audience is reasonable.

Although getting experience was both edifying and fun, there was still a huge opportunity cost. I would have preferred to spend a bit more of my summer indulging my personal interests.

And, to throw my personal opinion into the mix, it's not even close to edifying civilisation like any of the others.

Com/android/platform_hardware_ril I have not looked at this part of Android source code in depth in a while, but from a quick look it still looks very edifying about how this part of a smartphone works.

The student then reverted all those rollbacks without any discussion on the Talk page or edifying comments in their changes. The attempted discussion appears to have happened after this.

The fact that other people have it worse in various sweatshops around the world is hardly relevant, or particularly edifying. We are quite capable of seeing problems as a matter of degree I would hope.

This continues to be edifying only on a superficial level. Context continues to matter.

But learning how to go about programming that is certainly not, in my view, a waste of time, or at least no more a waste of time than doing an edifying class assignment. So, in essence, they're filtering for people that enjoy solving interesting coding challenges in their free time.

Definitely edifying to read his blog but I don't get the sense that he has much respect for his users, or to put it another way, a that he has an accurate perspective on how reality differs from people's expectations. Clearly that's going to be slower, you doofus.

It's emotionally and socially edifying. Studies show that families that dine together stay together [1].

It's a refusal to accept this that prevents people from completing tasks -- they hit the inevitable wave of tedium, and they can't grind through it, because they assume anything that's truly edifying will be tedium-free. That's a really dangerous belief.

It's not especially edifying to discuss your perceptions of Danny's hidden motives, when the intended topic of discussion is what Danny actually wrote.

On the contrary, I've found the discourse between Jeremy and Yehuda vigorous, respectful, and edifying. In my opinion, these are the best kinds of technical discussions; they are like a rock tumbler that wears away at our solutions until we're left with shiny best practices--and can move on to the next big problem to solve.

But chances are the people with the talent to make that happen would rather do other things that will: - make more money - will be more fulfilling than, say, cold calling venues or other less-than-edifying things that, ultimately, make or break a career. When I read about the idea Derek Sivers had to get people to specialize in 'Muck-Work' I got really excited.

On the contrary, I find most of my courses to be incredibly edifying, and that even superfluous information has innate value. However, the function of the education system is not to instill knowledge for knowledge's sake, but to produce capable individuals prepared for the real world.

Of course there are some grey areas between the two, but the constrast of Murdoch's News organisation bribing policemen and the Guardian publishing stories based on top-secret documents from a whistleblower is an edifying one I think.

> I really find historical technology to be edifying in the same way political, musical, and broader cultural history is edifying. I think it's a shame that we don't spend as much time teaching technology/design history to software engineers as we spend training 6th graders to understand their local political/cultural history.

For an edifying take on the populist/bimetallic position, consider reading William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, which is full of eminently-quotable and still-relevant lines. For example, a rebuttal of what came to be known as the "trickle-down" theory: Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between "the idle holders of idle capital" and "the struggling masses, who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country"; and, my friends, the question we are to decide is: Upon which side will the Democratic party fight; upon the side of "the idle holders of idle capital" or upon the side of "the struggling masses"?

Edifying definitions

adjective

enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"

See also: enlightening