Triumphalism is not an edifying spectacle, So those among you of a sensitive disposition are advised not to read on.

This offers the edifying moral spectacle of greed struggling against laziness and provides the scientifically calculated minimum exercise that the diners must have to survive until dessert.

Certainly the contemporary geometry of the subcontinental map is a less edifying spectacle: a misshapen Venn diagram, with two national circumferences overlapping, ferociously, in Kashmir.

The auto de fe was an edifying spectacle of public humiliation of the repentant before they were sent off to the civil authorities, for execution.

It is not an edifying spectacle for people who benefited from public funding of higher education (even wealthy people like Cameron and Clegg) to pull the ladder up behind them.

The edifying spectacle of other trials did not prevent his own pilfering.

"What an edifying spectacle to come across in a Royal Court," said Duke Alric.

The answer is politics - which does not make for an edifying religious spectacle.

The press at work is not always an edifying spectacle.

Political opportunism is not an edifying spectacle.