Exempel på edification

• They are merely being filmed for the education and edification of the public.

• His apparent goals were to provide his readers with pleasure and edification and also to affect their identification of him.

• These words were pronounced not merely for the edification of the novice but also for the benefit of the public.

• But one may still ask what makes an argument a good one, even in the more limited context of, say, edification.

• The poem locates its fictional genesis in the request of the poet's friends that he write a love poem for their enjoyment and edification.

• His journal entries were written for his own personal edification.

• These collections were meant for serious moral guidance rather than scholarly or literary edification.

• They are particularly intended for the edification of monks, nuns and clerics by means of the virtuous example of the saint.

• Like other congregations, it hosted ' lectures ' (sermons) during the week for the edification of the laity.

• As part of the 'leisure' industry, classical recordings are firmly within 'serious leisure' - the kind of leisure that makes 'edification' and 'improvement' a high priority.

• The assertion that known sin should be expiated publicly for the edification of those injured by the sin is certainly consonant with traditional calls for public penance.

• Nor is it clear that displaying an aestheticized, romanticized fantasy image of the poor for the edification or titillation of the sinful affluent really furthers egalitarian ideals.

• Allen assumes that the ordinary leisured person cannot aspire to produce a groundbreaking scientific text; he or she is only a hobbyist, observing non-human nature for personal edification alone.

• We shall regard it with no more surprise and no greater edification than we regard the ordinary and more sordid incidents of everyday life.

• Surely, we would like to do that for the edification of our own people.