edifying

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The book’s most edifying compilations recount the Soviet people’s unconquerable yearning to live, create and love freely, despite the daily menaces of a police state and deafening propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

But it’s an edifying experience, hurtling forward with only the mighty light of intrepid wonder to guide us.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

Nik goes further and says it was "absolutely edifying".

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

The power of absence and refusal is perhaps more edifying in literature — see “The Stranger,” “The Quiet Man,” the brick-wall calm of I-would-prefer-not-to Bartleby — than in real life.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024

“At the Villa Rossa. It was very edifying, baby. We all sang. Where have you been?”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway