1 We were treated to the unedifying spectacle of two cabinet ministers fighting over a seat.

2 If you do, you find yourself faced with unedifying alternatives such as those which Lewis proposes.

3 It was heard loud and clear in the unedifying battles of the early eighties.

4 That unedifying but intriguing little episode must have been round the Lab within minutes of its happening.

5 Middlesex acted swiftly after an unedifying scene at Fenner's in mid-April.

6 But at least the unedifying spectacle of comrades in Christ tearing strips off each other over gay sex will vanish from the headlines for a bit.

7 On the unedifying side , numerous fellow Singaporeans have treated their healthcare professionals like pariahs.

8 The unedifying response to the Wall Street crisis shows that the biggest change we need to make is in our politics.

9 The kill is pulled apart in a way most people would find unedifying, despite assurances.

10 "Twenty-five years ago researchers in the field were engaged in an unedifying discussion of the relation between skull sizes and intelligence test scores, " Hunt said.

11 In recent weeks, the local media reported prominently the unedifying spectacles of a Singaporean money changer allegedly cheating hundreds of Chinese workers of their hard-earned savings here.

12 He married a number of wives in his declining years, and his life on the whole was by modern standards unedifying.

13 I was in town to start directing a spectacularly unedifying documentary about a teenage girl who operated a pornographic webcam from her bedroom.