The ANC's unedifying internal wrangles are only adding to South Africans' growing sense of gloom.
One Independent councillor in 2009 found the daggers drawn at county hall in Truro an unedifying spectacle.
America's support for Peru's disgraced spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, is one unedifying example.
His sentiments were echoed by The Guardian's Andrew Clements, who called the production "an unedifying exercise in postmodern, operatic grunge".
She has also had to accept that the infamous "0300 call" election advertisement was an empty, and unedifying, threat, which diminished her.
And there is no denying that he has shown an uncanny instinct for gauging the national mood, unedifying though that often is.
In an unedifying end to this gripping chapter in the assembly's history scuffles broke out between members outside the chamber after his re-election.
BBC: NEWS | Programmes | BBC Parliament | When the assembly worked
How long this unedifying game goes on remains to be seen.
FORBES: Why Oil Markets Are Watching The Wrong Middle East Crisis
Equally, if the prime minister wants to draw a lesson from an unedifying episode, it should be that too much leash is being given to freebooting ministerial acolytes.
Above all, though, there is the inescapable comparison between the admittedly unedifying state of the nation under Mr Netanyahu and the catastrophic situation today, 11 weeks into the Al Aqsa intifada.
Another Labour peer, Lord Davies of Stamford, characterised the pay gap as "highly unsatisfactory and unedifying" and suggested that companies should have to publish reasons for the decisions they take over pay-scales.
And just to complete the day, there was the unedifying sight of coach Henk Ten Cate having to restrain a graceless group of Chelsea's defeated players confronting referee Mark Halsey at the final whistle.
The blame game for the disastrous financial crisis is in full, unedifying bloom, especially as it is being played by former chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board, an eminent institution where ordinarily, discretion is better part of valor.
On this view, these institutions are little more than con-tricks at the moment, built on the illusion that you can turn management into a science and dedicated to the unedifying goal of teaching greedy people how to satisfy their appetites.
In the wake of the unedifying disturbances outside St Patrick's church in Belfast's Donegall Street, Mr Osborne has criticised the decision by leading unionists including Peter Robinson to put their names to an open letter which described his commission's decision to prevent a loyalist band from marching past the church as "monstrous".
应用推荐