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Pamela Ribon, a writer at Walt Disney animation studios, pointed out the inherent sexism in this otherwise worthy volume, which contains the following unedifying passage: At breakfast one morning, Barbie is already hard at work on her laptop.

"It's an unedifying spectacle, there is no doubt about that," The Sun quoted Dawson, as saying.

So there was something unedifying about Labour MPs queuing up to use the crisis for electoral gain, absolving the firm's management of blame and pinning it all on the Conservatives.

If it wishes to return to the issue, it should be looking at a reform that is equitable, effective, by making it easier to pay taxes, and at a system that encourages domestic and foreign investment--including by being predictable, rather than offering sagas as unedifying as that of recent days, in which the Government was seen to vacillate on the issue.

Yesterday we saw the unedifying spectacle of councillors on the audit committee, who are members of the ruling coalition, refusing to attend a meeting to discuss a letter from external auditors addressing the breakdown between the council's executive and senior officers.

Some students, unfamiliar with the uses of Gothic conventions, come prepared to denounce the genre as a whole by claiming it to be unedifying at best and evil at worst.

The architects responded to this unedifying inexactitude by designing an utterly simple glazed rectangular box, with a stair tower pulled clear of the main volume on the north side.

After references to Augustinian ideas about textual structure as mirroring divine order, Eriksen swerves to a genre of unedifying but highly crafted poetry that nevertheless seems echoed in some of Augustine's discussions.

In his last column for the National Post, Richler said, "Don't look to writers for morality lessons." He gave many examples of writers whose own lives were most unedifying; Byron was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know, and others were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters...." Still it is worth pointing out that Richler was wrong in saying that great writers have no lessons to teach us.

The story behind Psalm 51 is equally unedifying. "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ...

inventory--the A-10 and the F-16) were witness to the unedifying spectacle of the Navy captain and his friend reacting to Reagan 5 star wars speech.

Certainly Charlie Chaplin, for all his comic genius, offered the unedifying spectacle of a man criticizing capitalism all the way to the bank.

SEEING Michael Gove and Boris Johnson fighting like cats in a sack shows just how unedifying this Tory leadership race has become - as if the multiple drugs scandals weren't enough already.

Brexit safeguards descend into farce ONCE again we have the unedifying theatre in Westminster of the violent debate on our divorce from the European Union descending into farce.

The Scottish Labour leadership race has become an unedifying spectacle.