unedifying

• To discourse of Poets and Poetry in the Hazlitt style, or talk stuff about the Spirit of the Age, were most unedifying: one knows not what to call himself. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
• The Assembly encouraged the kinds of lawsuits that are unbiblical, unedifying, and, I would argue, ultimately unPresbyterian. —  www.markdroberts.com
• Low-order conflicts like this may be unedifying, but they demonstrate that there is some life, at least, in the old Danish dog, and he's not solely content to be anaesthetised with material gew-gaws and entertainment TV. —  1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)
• And because I worked for an Australian newspaper here for a few years, I know what it's like to be treated as an Aussie by Kiwis, and it is unedifying stuff. —  ScreenTalk
• It is no joy at all watching the entire nation gripped in this spectacle of masochistic one-upmanship, as politicians -- all from the governing coalition, no less -- pile on each other in a most unedifying public free-for-all.

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